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Cover Picture: Phosphinothiolates as Ligands for Polyhydrido Copper Nanoclusters (Chem. Eur. J. 49/2014)
Author(s) -
Huertos Miguel A.,
Cano Israel,
Bandeira Nuno A. G.,
BenetBuchholz Jordi,
Bo Carles,
van Leeuwen Piet W. N. M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201490202
Subject(s) - copper , chemistry , crystallography , nanoclusters , cluster (spacecraft) , ligand (biochemistry) , organic chemistry , receptor , programming language , computer science , biochemistry
The peculiar structure of the nanocluster, reported by P. W. N. M. van Leeuwen et al. in their Full Paper on page 16121 ff., consists of eighteen copper atoms and ten phosphinothiolate anions with a core of eight copper atoms, four additional atoms sticking out via bridging ligands, and on top and below the central core three atoms also glued to the cluster via bridging ligand interactions. The structure of the cluster is unusually “unorganized” compared to most other clusters, although it does have an inversion center.