Pd₈(PDip)₆: Cubic, Unsaturated, Zerovalent.

ABSTRACT: Atomically precise nanoclusters hold promise for supramolecular assembly and (opto)electronic- as well as magnetic materials. Herein, this work reports that treating palladium(0) precursors with a triphosphirane affords strongly colored Pd₈(PDip)₆ that is fully characterized by mass spectrometry, heteronuclear and Cross-Polarization Magic-Angle Spinning (CP-MAS) NMR-, infrared (IR), UV-vis, and X-ray photoelectron (XP) spectroscopies, single-crystal X-Ray diffraction (sc-XRD), mass spectrometry, and cyclovoltammetry (CV). This coordinatively unsaturated 104-electron Pd(0) cluster features a cubic Pd₈-core, µ₄-capping phosphinidene ligands, and is air-stable. Quantum chemical calculations provide insight to the cluster's electronic structure and s

SUBMITTER: Breitwieser K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11220702 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature