Issue 22, 2020

Silver clusters templated by homo- and hetero-anions

Abstract

Silver clusters with atomic precision have garnered immense attention owing to their aesthetic structures and fascinating properties. Assembly of silver clusters involves organizing positively charged silver ions into an intricate entity in an ordered fashion. To this end, the established effective route to assemble well-ordered silver clusters uses facile template anions as structure-directing agents. The past decades have witnessed a single anion template strategy widely used to construct silver clusters. In order to overcome the nuclearity limitation from the single anion template, multiple anionic templates have been recently introduced into the controllable preparation of high-nuclearity silver clusters. In this highlight, we will summarize the recent advances in homo- and hetero-anion templated silver clusters, in which their synthetic methods, crystal structures and anionic template directing effects as well as properties will be discussed.

Graphical abstract: Silver clusters templated by homo- and hetero-anions

Article information

Article type
Highlight
Submitted
31 Ube 2020
Accepted
27 Mme 2020
First published
28 Mme 2020

CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 3736-3748

Silver clusters templated by homo- and hetero-anions

Z. Pan, C. Deng, Z. Wang, J. Lin, G. Luo and D. Sun, CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 3736 DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00489H

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