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Inside Cover: Anion-Guided Stepwise Assembly of High-Nuclearity Lanthanide Hydroxide Clusters (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 33/2022)
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The rational synthesis of high-nuclearity lanthanide clusters remains challenging. In their Research Article (e202205385), Min Feng, Zhiping Zheng, and co-workers developed a stepwise synthesis of a high-nuclearity sodalite cage-like cluster Er60, guided by judiciously selected anions. The successive introduction of I−, CO32−, and NO3− led to the isolation of three crucial intermediate clusters, namely the wheel-like Er12, ship-like Er34, and bowl-like Er48. These findings opened the “black box” of the elusive self-assembly process and provided mechanistic insights.
