Issue 28, 2021

All-selenolate-protected eight-electron platinum/silver nanoclusters

Abstract

The first atomically and structurally precise platinum/silver superatoms protected by Se-donor ligands were synthesized in high yield by adopting ligand replacements on [PtAg20{S2P(OnPr)2}12] (3) with 12 equiv. of di-alkyl diselenophosph(in)ates. Structures of [PtAg20{Se2P(OR)2}12] (R = nPr (1a), iPr (1b)) and [PtAg20{Se2P(CH2CH2Ph)2}12] (2) were accurately determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction to reveal an eight-electron [Pt@Ag12]4+ icosahedral core embedded within a cube of eight silver(I) atoms and wrapped into a shell of 12 diselenophosph(in)ates. While the lowest energy absorption band of the Se derivatives is red-shifted to longer wavelengths in comparison with the S analogue, it is blue-shifted in the emission spectra. Density functional theory (DFT) and TD-DFT calculations rationalize the electronic structures as those of eight-electron superatoms, with their HOMO and LUMO being the 1P and 1D levels, respectively. The two UV–visible lowest bands are associated with 1P → 1D metal to metal charge transfer (MMCT) transitions. The blue shift observed for the S analogue results from a larger HOMO–LUMO gap in the case of dithiolate ligands.

Graphical abstract: All-selenolate-protected eight-electron platinum/silver nanoclusters

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Apr 2021
Accepted
24 Jun 2021
First published
25 Jun 2021

Nanoscale, 2021,13, 12143-12148

All-selenolate-protected eight-electron platinum/silver nanoclusters

T. Chiu, J. Liao, F. Gam, I. Chantrenne, S. Kahlal, J. Saillard and C. W. Liu, Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 12143 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR02540F

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