Volume 51, Issue 35 pp. 8783-8786
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High-Nuclearity Silver Ethynide Clusters Assembled with Phosphonate and Metavanadate Precursors

Dr. Yun-Peng Xie

Dr. Yun-Peng Xie

Department of Chemistry and Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR (P.R. China)

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Prof. Thomas C. W. Mak

Corresponding Author

Prof. Thomas C. W. Mak

Department of Chemistry and Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR (P.R. China)

Department of Chemistry and Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR (P.R. China)Search for more papers by this author
First published: 29 July 2012
Citations: 105

This work was supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (GRF Ref. CUHK 402710) and the Wei Lun Foundation. We thank The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the award of a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to Y.-P.X.

Graphical Abstract

Giant mixed-metal clusters have been assembled with the multinuclear silver(I) tert-butylethynide supramolecular synthon and phosphonate-functionalized oxovanadate building blocks as surface components. Various anionic species can be used as their encapsulated templates. (Picture: Ag36 cluster anion encapsulating a chloride (sphere) and two [(O2)(V2O6)]4− template anions (dark green); Ag blue, O red, P yellow, V green).

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