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Activation of Molecular Oxygen by Anionic Gold Clusters
Author(s) -
Woodham Alex P.,
Meijer Gerard,
Fielicke André
Publication year - 2012
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.201108958
Subject(s) - cluster (spacecraft) , chemistry , molecular oxygen , gold cluster , oxygen , oxygen atom , electron affinity (data page) , photochemistry , molecule , crystallography , chemical physics , computational chemistry , electronic structure , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language
A golden opportunity : Molecular oxygen is found to be converted into a superoxo (O 2 − ) species upon complexation to gold‐cluster anions containing an even number of Au atoms. Vibrational spectra (see scheme) reveal small variations in the extent of OO bond activation dependent upon the electron affinity of the parent cluster.