Premium
Ionically Cross‐Linked Gold Clusters and Gold Nanoparticles
Author(s) -
Schmid Günter
Publication year - 2008
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/anie.200800506
Subject(s) - cationic polymerization , colloidal gold , chemistry , ionic bonding , fullerene , nanoparticle , ionic crystal , crystal (programming language) , crystallography , nanotechnology , ion , materials science , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language
Nuggets and buckyballs : Cationic small molecular gold clusters linked together by anions form ionic crystals. The cutting edge of such intercluster compounds involves combinations of Au 7 and Au 8 clusters and fullerides obtained by the reaction of KC 60 with [Au 8 (PPh 3 ) 8 ](NO 3 ) 2 in MeCN/THF. The picture shows a simplified view of the crystal structure of [Au 7 (PPh 3 ) 7 ]C 60 ⋅THF in the direction of [010] (C gray, Au yellow).