Isolation and Structures of Polyarene Palladium Nanoclusters.

ABSTRACT: We report that surrounding coordination of neutral six-membered arene rings affords molecularly well-defined organotransition metal nanoclusters. With the use of [2.2]paracyclophane as the face-capping arene ligand, we have isolated two polyarene palladium nanoclusters, one consisting of a hexakis-arene ligand shell and a hexagonal close-packed Pd₁₃ anticuboctahedron trichloride core, and the other consisting of an octakis-arene ligand shell and a non-close-packed Pd₁₇ square gyrobicupola dichloride core, both with Pd-Pd direct bonding. The μ₄-facial coordination mode of arene was discovered through the structural characterization of the Pd₁₃ cluster. Their Pd₁₃ and Pd₁₇ cores, which are distinct from the previously identifi

SUBMITTER: Hatano A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10360153 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature