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Triple‐Decker Au 3 –Ag–Au 3 –Ag–Au 3 Ion Cluster Enclosed in a Self‐Assembled Cage
Author(s) -
Osuga Takafumi,
Murase Takashi,
Fujita Makoto
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.201207619
Subject(s) - cage , cluster (spacecraft) , ion , limiting , crystallography , self assembly , metal ions in aqueous solution , metal , chemistry , nanotechnology , physics , materials science , computer science , combinatorics , engineering , mathematics , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , programming language
Silver in a gold mine: A triple‐decker Au I –Ag I ion cluster was synthesized by alternate alignment of cyclic trinuclear Au I complexes and Ag I ions within a self‐assembled cage. The box‐shaped cavity of the cage is suitable not only for limiting the cluster number, but also for the stabilization of weakly associated metal ions, which cannot exist without the help of the cage.