title: Water-Soluble Pentagonal-Prismatic Titanium-Oxo Clusters.
abstract: By using solubility control to crystallize the prenucleation clusters of hydrosol, a family of titanium-oxo clusters possessing the {Ti18O27} core in which the 18 Ti(IV)-ions are uniquely connected with μ-oxo ligands into a triple-decked pentagonal prism was obtained. The cluster cores are wrapped by external sulfate and aqua ligands, showing good solubilities and stabilities in a variety of solvents including acetonitrile and water and allowing their solution chemistry being studied by means of electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy, (17)O NMR, and vibrational spectroscopy. Furthermore, this study provides new titanium oxide candidates for surface modifications and homogeneous photocatalysis.
authors.affiliation: Key Lab for Colloid and Interface Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , Ji'Nan 250100, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Guanyun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Lab for Colloid and Interface Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , Ji'Nan 250100, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Caiyun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: WestChem, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow , Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: De-Liang
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Long
authors.affiliation: WestChem, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow , Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Leroy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cronin
authors.affiliation: Key Lab for Colloid and Interface Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , Ji'Nan 250100, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Chen-Ho
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tung
authors.affiliation: Key Lab for Colloid and Interface Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , Ji'Nan 250100, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yifeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang