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Synthesis and Characterization of the Highly Unstable Metalloid Cluster Ag 64 (P n Bu 3 ) 16 Cl 6
Author(s) -
Diecke Maximilian,
Schrenk Claudio,
Schnepf Andreas
Publication year - 2020
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.202006454
Subject(s) - metalloid , cluster (spacecraft) , crystallography , phosphine , yield (engineering) , chemistry , metal , materials science , organic chemistry , metallurgy , computer science , programming language , catalysis
The reduction of ( n Bu 3 P)AgCl with LiBH( s Bu) 3 in toluene gives the metalloid silver cluster Ag 64 (P n Bu 3 ) 16 Cl 6 ( 1 ) as dark red, temperature‐ and light‐sensitive single crystals in high yield. 1 is the largest structurally characterized metalloid silver cluster exhibiting chlorine and phosphine substituents only. The silver atoms in 1 show an overall brick‐shape arrangement, where structural resemblance to the close‐packed fcc and hcp structures is realized. Within 1 a 58 electron closed shell system is present. The light sensitivity renders 1 as a model compound for the primary seeds of the photo process, whereby this sensitivity, together with the high‐yield synthesis show that 1 is a perfect starting compound for further investigations like silver‐plating processes.