Isolation of an unusual [Cu6] nanocluster through sequential addition of copper(I) to a polynucleating ligand

Andreas Phanopoulos; Mark Warren; Andrew J. P. White; Andrew Horton; Mark R. Crimmin

doi:10.1039/C6DT04703C

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Isolation of an unusual [Cu₆] nanocluster through sequential addition of copper(i) to a polynucleating ligand†

Andreas Phanopoulos,^a Mark Warren,^b Andrew J. P. White,^a Andrew Horton^c and Mark R. Crimmin

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^a Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, UK
E-mail: m.crimmin@imperial.ac.uk

^b Diamond Light Source Ltd, Diamond House, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK

^c PTI/DX Emerging Technologies, Shell Global Solutions International B.V, P.O. Box 38000, 1030 BN Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abstract

Addition of 2 equiv. of CuI to a [Cu]₄ multimetallic complex results in cluster formation leading to the isolation of a rare bicapped tetrahedral [Cu₆I₂] cluster that is stabilised by two conformationally constrained polynucleating ligands.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT04703C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 07 nov 2016
Accepted: 20 jan 2017
First published: 20 jan 2017

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Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 2077-2080

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Isolation of an unusual [Cu₆] nanocluster through sequential addition of copper(I) to a polynucleating ligand

A. Phanopoulos, M. Warren, A. J. P. White, A. Horton and M. R. Crimmin, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 2077 DOI: 10.1039/C6DT04703C

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