Runguo Wang, Dong Chen, Liang Fang, Wentao Fan, Qing You, Guoqing Bian, Yue Zhou, Wanmiao Gu, Chengming Wang, Licheng Bai, Jin Li, Haiteng Deng, Lingwen Liao, Jun Yang, Zhikun Wu
Atomically precise ~1-nm Pt nanoparticles (nanoclusters, NCs) with ambient stability are important in fundamental research and exhibit diverse practical applications (catalysis, biomedicine, etc.). However, synthesizing such materials is challenging. Herein, by employing the mixture ligand protecting strategy, we successfully synthesized the largest organic-ligand-protected (~1-nm) Pt23 NCs precisely characterized with mass spectrometry and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. Interestingly, natural population analysis and Bader charge calculation indicate an alternate, varying charge -layer distribution in the sandwich-like Pt23 NC kernel...
April 8, 2024: Angewandte Chemie