title: High-Nuclearity Silver Thiolate Clusters Constructed with Phosphonates.
abstract: The n-butylphosphonate ligand has been employed to construct three new silver(I) thiolate compounds. Single-crystal X-ray analysis revealed that complexes 1 and 2 are Ag48 and Ag51 coordination chain polymers, while 3 contains a discrete Ag48 cluster, in which three different kinds of silver(I) thiolate cluster shells enclose three different phosphonate-functionalized silver(I) cluster cores, respectively. The structures of clusters in 1-3 feature three three-shell arrangements, S@Ag12 @(nBuPO3 )9 @Ag36 S23 , S@Ag11 @(nBuPO3 )7 (MoO4 )2 @Ag40 S27 and MoO4 @Ag12 @(nBuPO3 )8 S6 @Ag36 S24 , respectively.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074 (China). xieyp@hust.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yun-Peng
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Jun-Ling
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074 (China). lux@hust.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR (P.R. China).
authors.forename: Thomas C W
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Mak
keywords: cage compounds; clusters; phosphonates; silver; thiolates