Halide-ion-templated Ag8Cu6 rhombic dodecahedrons: synthesis, structure and reactivity of [Ag8Cu6(CCtBu)12X]BF4 (X = Cl, Br)

Timothy U. Connell; Saman Sandanayake; George N. Khairallah; Jonathan M. White; Richard A. J. O'Hair; Paul S. Donnelly; Spencer J. Williams

doi:10.1039/C3DT33027C

You do not have JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript to access the full features of the site or access our non-JavaScript page.

Halide-ion-templated Ag₈Cu₆ rhombic dodecahedrons: synthesis, structure and reactivity of [Ag₈Cu₆(CCtBu)₁₂X]BF₄ (X = Cl, Br)†

Timothy U. Connell,‡^a Saman Sandanayake,‡^a George N. Khairallah,^a Jonathan M. White,^a Richard A. J. O'Hair,*^a Paul S. Donnelly*^a and Spencer J. Williams*^a

Author affiliations

* Corresponding authors

^a School of Chemistry and Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
E-mail: sjwill@unimelb.edu.au, pauld@unimelb.edu.au, rohair@unimelb.edu.au
Fax: +61 3 9347 5180
Tel: +61 3 8344 2422

Abstract

Halide-templated tert-butylethynide Ag₁₄ complexes undergo reversible exchange with copper(I) to afford a series of mixed Ag_14−nCu_n (n = 1–6) species. Up to six silver atoms in the cluster can be replaced with copper(I) to give a core structure featuring a Ag₈Cu₆ rhombic dodecahedron. These clusters are useful models for investigating the chemical reactivity and photoluminescence of heterometallic d¹⁰–d¹⁰ systems.

Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3DT33027C
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 18 Dec 2012
Accepted: 16 Jan 2013
First published: 17 Jan 2013

Download Citation

Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 4903-4907

Permissions

Request permissions

Halide-ion-templated Ag₈Cu₆ rhombic dodecahedrons: synthesis, structure and reactivity of [Ag₈Cu₆(CCtBu)₁₂X]BF₄ (X = Cl, Br)

T. U. Connell, S. Sandanayake, G. N. Khairallah, J. M. White, R. A. J. O'Hair, P. S. Donnelly and S. J. Williams, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 4903 DOI: 10.1039/C3DT33027C

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Social activity

Fetching data from CrossRef.
This may take some time to load.

Dalton Transactions