Targeted design of a cubic boron imidazolate cage with sensing and reducing functions.
A cubic cationic cage is rationally designed by using tridentate boron-imidazolate ligands to link tetrahedral metal Zn(ii) centers, which displays excellent properties in the Cr2O7(2-) exchange and can reduce Au(3+) ions into Au nanoparticles directly.
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. zhj@fjirsm.ac.cn twen@fjirsm.ac.cn.
De-Xiang
DX
Zhang
Hai-Xia
HX
Zhang
Tian
T
Wen
Jian
J
Zhang