A large copper-niobate cluster with the pagoda-shaped subunit {Nb20O59}.
Zhijie LiangYuanyuan QiaoXue LiPengtao MaJingyang NiuJingping WangPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2021)
A 72-nuclearity niobium cluster was synthesized, in which two {CuNb26O76} clusters and one {Nb20O59} cluster are fused in a triangular fashion, resulting in a {Nb12} cavity. Further, the simple nature of the species allowed its investigation by ESI-MS analysis, yielding two subunits with time.