Structural characterization and gas-phase studies of the [Ag10H8(L)6]2 nanocluster dication

HZ Ma; AI McKay; A Mravak; MS Scholz; JM White; RJ Mulder; EJ Bieske; V Bonačić-Koutecký; RAJ O'Hair

Journal article

Structural characterization and gas-phase studies of the [Ag10H8(L)6]2 nanocluster dication

HZ Ma, AI McKay, A Mravak, MS Scholz, JM White, RJ Mulder, EJ Bieske, V Bonačić-Koutecký, RAJ O'Hair

Nanoscale | ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1039/c9nr08321a

Abstract

The reactions between silver salts and borohydrides produce a rich set of products that range from discrete mononuclear compounds through to silver nanoparticles and colloids. Previous studies using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) to track the cationic products in solutions containing sodium borohydride, silver(i) tetrafluoroborate and the bisphosphine ligands, L, bis(diphenylphosphino)methane (dppm) and bis(diphenylphosphino)amine (dppa) have identified the dications [Ag10H8(L)6]2+. Here we isolate and structurally characterize [Ag10H8(dppa)6](BF4)2, and [Ag10H8(dppa)6](NO3)2via X-ray crystallography. Both dications have nearly identical structural features consisting of ..

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Ms Maja A. Dunstan and Dr Vinzenz Hofferek for help with UV-Vis studies and assistance with the Orbitrap Fusion Lumos mass spectrometer, respectively. Michael S. Scholz and Howard Z. Ma thank the Australian government for an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship and Research Training Program scholarship, respectively. We thank the Australian Research Council (ARC) for financial support: DP150101388 and DP180101187 (to RAJO); DP150101427 and DP160100474 (to EJB). We thank Prof. Gavin E. Reid for access to the QExactive Orbitrap mass spectrometer, which was funded via the ARC (LE160100015). The single-crystal X-ray diffractometers used in this study were funded by the ARC (LE170100065). This research was partially supported by the project STIM - REI, Contract Number: KK.01.1.1.01.0003, funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund - the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020 (KK.01.1.1.01). VBK and AM acknowledge computational facilities of the supercomputer "Bura" at the University of Rijeka and SRCE at University of Zagreb as well as Prof. Miroslav Radman at MedILS and Split-Dalmatia County for support.