Structural determination of a metastable Ag27 nanocluster and its transformations into Ag8 and Ag29 nanoclusters

Chen Zhu; Tengfei Duan; Hao Li; Xiao Wei; Xi Kang; Yong Pei; Manzhou Zhu

doi:10.1039/D1QI00684C

Structural determination of a metastable Ag₂₇ nanocluster and its transformations into Ag₈ and Ag₂₉ nanoclusters†

Chen Zhu,‡^ab Tengfei Duan,‡^c Hao Li,^ab Xiao Wei,^ab Xi Kang,

*^ab Yong Pei*^c and Manzhou Zhu

*^ab

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^a Department of Chemistry and Centre for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
E-mail: kangxi_chem@ahu.edu.cn, zmz@ahu.edu.cn

^b Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China

^c Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, P. R. China
E-mail: ypei2@xtu.edu.cn

Abstract

Research on nanocluster transformation has generally focused on stable nanoclusters, while analysis of the structural evolutions of metastable nanoclusters just began to receive attention recently. Herein, we report the structural determination of a metastable Ag₂₇H₁₁(SPhMe₂)₁₂(DPPM)₆ nanocluster and its spontaneous transformation into a size-reduction Ag₈(SPhMe₂)₈(DPPM)₁ nanocluster as well as ligand-exchange-triggered transformation into a size-growth Ag₂₉(SSR)₁₂(DPPM)₄ nanocluster. The new structure of Ag₂₇ and its structural transformations hopefully provide some implication to the in-depth understanding of metastable nanoclusters.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1QI00684C
Article type: Research Article
Submitted: 03 6 2021
Accepted: 02 8 2021
First published: 03 8 2021

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Inorg. Chem. Front., 2021,8, 4407-4414

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Structural determination of a metastable Ag₂₇ nanocluster and its transformations into Ag₈ and Ag₂₉ nanoclusters

C. Zhu, T. Duan, H. Li, X. Wei, X. Kang, Y. Pei and M. Zhu, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2021, 8, 4407 DOI: 10.1039/D1QI00684C

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