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Inorganic Chemistry Goes Protein Size: A Mo 368 Nano‐Hedgehog Initiating Nanochemistry by Symmetry Breaking
Author(s) -
Müller Achim,
Beckmann Eike,
Bögge Hartmut,
Schmidtmann Marc,
Dress Andreas
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20020402)41:7<1162::aid-anie1162>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - nanochemistry , molybdenum , molybdate , nano , redox , chemical physics , cluster (spacecraft) , chemistry , nanotechnology , crystallography , chemical engineering , materials science , physics , inorganic chemistry , computer science , quantum mechanics , engineering , programming language
Molybdenum monsters : A huge molybdenum cluster, comprising large areas with different local symmetry (in the picture different colors represent different (smaller) Mo fragments) is prepared and characterized. Molybdate fragments, which can tolerate a change of electron density at various positions, can be linked in a tremendous variety of ways according to a split‐and‐link process. Small changes of the boundary conditions, especially the redox conditions, which control growth, as well as the H + ion concentration, can have a deciding influence on the process.