Sn368−: a 2.7 nm naked aromatic tin rod

Nikolay V. Tkachenko; Wei-Xing Chen; Harry W. T. Morgan; Alvaro Muñoz-Castro; Alexander I. Boldyrev; Zhong-Ming Sun

doi:10.1039/D2CC01745H

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Sn₃₆⁸⁻: a 2.7 nm naked aromatic tin rod†

Nikolay V. Tkachenko,‡^a Wei-Xing Chen,‡^b Harry W. T. Morgan,^c Alvaro Muñoz-Castro,^d Alexander I. Boldyrev

*^a and Zhong-Ming Sun

*^b

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^a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, 0300 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, USA
E-mail: a.i.boldyrev@usu.edu

^b State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Lab of Rare Earth Materials and Applications, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
E-mail: sunlab@nankai.edu.cn

^c Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, USA

^d Grupo de Química Inorgánicay Materiales Moleculares, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, El Llano Subercaseaux, Santiago 2801, Chile

Abstract

In this work, we synthesize naked tin cluster anion Sn₃₆⁸⁻, representing the first example of pure Sn nanowire assembled through oxidative coupling reactions of a super atomic cluster Sn₉⁴⁻. Theoretical analysis confirm the presence of aromaticity for each Sn₉ unit showing four adjacent aromatic subunits bridged by parallel Sn–Sn bonds.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC01745H
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 29 Mar 2022
Accepted: 29 Apr 2022
First published: 29 Apr 2022

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Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 6223-6226

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Sn₃₆⁸⁻: a 2.7 nm naked aromatic tin rod

N. V. Tkachenko, W. Chen, H. W. T. Morgan, A. Muñoz-Castro, A. I. Boldyrev and Z. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 6223 DOI: 10.1039/D2CC01745H

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