Self-Assembly of a Stable Silver Thiolate Nanocluster Encapsulating a Lacunary Keggin Phosphotungstate Anion.
Bing-Jie YanXiang-Sha DuRen-Wu HuangJin-Sen YangZhao-Yang WangShuang Quan ZangThomas C W MakPublished in: Inorganic chemistry (2018)
A polyoxometalate-templated silver(I) thiolate nanocluster has been synthesized by a one-pot reaction in high yield. This novel and stable nanocluster exhibits a core-shell structure with a Ag67S36 shell and two lacunary Keggin [PW9O34]9- cores, which is fully characterized by X-ray crystallography, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, UV-vis, powder X-ray diffraction, and cyclic voltammetry.