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Chemical Science

Largest discrete supertetrahedral clusters synthesized in ionic liquids†

Wei-Wei Xiong,ab   Jian-Rong Li,a   Bing Hu,a   Bin Tan,a   Ren-Fu Lia  and  Xiao-Ying Huang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. China
E-mail: xyhuang@fjirsm.ac.cn

b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Abstract

Four discrete T5 cluster compounds with Cu–M–S constituents (M = In for compound 1, Ga for 2–4) have been synthesized in an ionic liquid (IL) [Bmmim]Cl (Bmmim = 1-butyl-2,3-dimethyl-imidazolium), which represent the largest molecular clusters in a Tn series. The in situ decomposition of the IL generates the Bim ligand (Bim = 1-butyl-2-methyl-imidazole) that directly coordinates to some of the corner Ga3+ ions of the T5 clusters in 3–4, leading to the formation of the first inorganic–organic hybrid T5 clusters. 2–4 show significantly broad photoluminescent emission bands ranging from 500 to 800 nm with a full width at half maximum (fwhm) at about 180 nm. This research provides a new method for synthesizing molecular metal chalcogenides that uses ILs as a reactive solvent and stabilizer.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2SC00824F
Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
20 Oct 2011
Accepted
04 Jan 2012
First published
10 Jan 2012

Chem. Sci., 2012,3, 1200-1204

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Largest discrete supertetrahedral clusters synthesized in ionic liquids

W. Xiong, J. Li, B. Hu, B. Tan, R. Li and X. Huang, Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 1200 DOI: 10.1039/C2SC00824F

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