RT Journal Article
T1 High-Nuclearity Metal–Organic Nanospheres: A Cd66 Ball
A1 Argent, Stephen
A1 Greenaway, Alex
A1 Giménez López, María del Carmen
A1 Lewis, William
A1 Nowell, Harriott
A1 Khlobystov, Andrei N.
A1 Blake, Alexander
A1 Champness, Neil
A1 Schröder, Martin
K1 Anions
K1 Cations
K1 Cluster chemistry
K1 Ligands
K1 Nanospheres
AB Reaction of H3L with Cd(NO3)2·4H2O in DMF at 150 °C for 3 days affords the metal–organic nanosphere [Cd66(μ3-OH)28(μ3-O)16(μ5-NO3-O,O,O′,O′,O″,O″)12(L)20(μ2-DMF)12⊂(DMF)9]. The cluster is composed of a spherical shell of 66 Cd(II) cations bridged by 28 μ3-hydroxide, 16 μ3-oxo, and five μ5-NO3– anions surrounded by a shell of 20 tripodal capping ligands (L) and 12 DMF ligands. The 66 Cd(II) cations and 12 NO3– anions form a polydeltahedron that has 78 vertices [Cd(II) or NO3–] (V), 228 edges (E), and 152 triangular faces (F), giving it an Euler characteristic (χ) of 2 (χ = V + F – E). Reaction of H3L with Cd(NO3)2·4H2O at lower temperatures or with CdCl2 affords coordination polymer frameworks instead of nanospheres.
PB American Chemical Society
SN 0002-7863
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32179
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32179
LA eng
NO Argent, S.P., Greenaway, A., Gimenez-Lopez, M. C., Lewis, W., Nowell, H., Khlobystov, A. N., Blake, A. J., Champness, N. R., Schröder, M. (2012). High-Nuclearity Metal–Organic Nanospheres: A Cd66 Bal. "Journal of the American Chemical Society". vol. 134, 1, 55–58
NO This document is the unedited author’s version of a submitted work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society, copyright © 2011 American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/ja207845u
NO This work was supported by the ERC, the EPSRC, and the University of Nottingham. M.S. gratefully acknowledges an ERC Advanced Grant and an EPSRC Programme Grant. N.R.C. gratefully acknowledges a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. We thank Victoria J. Richards for help in determining network topologies using TOPOS, (25) Dr. Sihai Yang for collecting XRPD data, and Dr. Graham Rance for assistance with DLS measurements. We also acknowledge the EPSRC National Service for Mass Spectrometry at the University of Swansea for assistance in mass spectrometric analysis and Diamond Light Source for access to Beamline I19.
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