A review of state of the art in phosphine ligated gold clusters and application in catalysis

RH Adnan, JML Madridejos, AS Alotabi… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically precise gold clusters are highly desirable due to their well‐defined structure
which allows the study of structure–property relationships. In addition, they have potential in …

Controlling gold nanoclusters by diphospine ligands

J Chen, QF Zhang, TA Bonaccorso… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis and structure determination of a new Au22 nanocluster coordinated
by six bidentate diphosphine ligands: 1, 8-bis (diphenylphosphino) octane (L8 for short) …

NWPEsSe: an adaptive-learning global optimization algorithm for nanosized cluster systems

J Zhang, VA Glezakou, R Rousseau… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Global optimization constitutes an important and fundamental problem in theoretical studies
in many chemical fields, such as catalysis, materials, or separations problems. In this paper …

Facile synthesis and optical properties of magic-number Au 13 clusters

Y Shichibu, K Suzuki, K Konishi - Nanoscale, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthesis of molecular gold clusters through a post-synthetic scheme involving HCl-
promoted nuclearity convergence was examined with various phosphine ligands …

Simultaneous RGB emitting Au nanoclusters in chitosan nanoparticles for anticancer gene theranostics

AK Sahoo, S Banerjee, SS Ghosh… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Advanced theranostic materials hold promise for targeted delivery of drugs, with the ability to
follow the transport as well as its consequences. This should, ideally, be possible with …

Phosphine-Stabilized Hidden Ground States in Gold Clusters Investigated via a Aun(PH3)m Database

CA McCandler, JC Dahl, KA Persson - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanoclusters are promising materials for catalysis and sensing due to their large surface
areas and unique electronic structures which can be tailored through composition …

Dissociation of gas phase ions of atomically precise silver clusters reflects their solution phase stability

P Chakraborty, A Baksi, E Khatun, A Nag… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report an attempt to probe into the energy demand of the fragmentation of atomically
precise silver clusters using collision induced dissociation mass spectrometry. Energy …

Gold‐Mediated C I Bond Activation of Iodobenzene

PSD Robinson, GN Khairallah… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The key challenges in unequivocally assigning the active catalyst in homogenous transition-
metal catalysis was recently covered in a review by Crabtree.[1] These include the need to …

Understanding ligand effects in gold clusters using mass spectrometry

GE Johnson, J Laskin - Analyst, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This review summarizes recent research on the influence of phosphine ligands on the size,
stability, and reactivity of gold clusters synthesized in solution. Sub-nanometer clusters …

Reaction mechanism governing formation of 1, 3-bis (diphenylphosphino) propane-protected gold nanoclusters

JW Hudgens, JM Pettibone, TP Senftle… - Inorganic …, 2011 - ACS Publications
This report outlines the determination of a reaction mechanism that can be manipulated to
develop directed syntheses of gold monolayer-protected clusters (MPCs) prepared by …