title: Ethynide-stabilized high-nuclearity silver(i) sulfido molecular clusters assembled using organic sulfide precursors.
abstract: Inexpensive 1,1'-thiocarbonyldiimidazole and di(2-pyridyl) thionocarbonate have been used as respective sulfide precursors to assemble unprecedented high-nuclearity ethynide-stabilized silver(i) sulfido molecular clusters [Ag9S6@Ag36(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]C(t)Bu)32(H2O)2] [Ag(imidazole)(CH3OH)(H2O)](BF4)2·8H2O·2CH3OH (1) and [Ag120S24(PhC[triple bond, length as m-dash]C)52Cl4(2-pyridone)10(H2O)8](H3O)4(SiF6)8(BF4)4·CH3OH·22H2O (2), the latter being the largest isolated silver(i) ethynide cluster reported to date.
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. tcwmak@cuhk.edu.hk.
authors.forename: Zi-Yi
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Dennis Y S
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Tam
authors.forename: Thomas C W
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Mak