Synthesis, characterization and electronic properties of an endohedral plumbaspherene [Au@Pb12]3−

Lei-Jiao Li; Fu-Xing Pan; Feng-Yu Li; Zhong-Fang Chen; Zhong-Ming Sun

doi:10.1039/C7QI00209B

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Synthesis, characterization and electronic properties of an endohedral plumbaspherene [Au@Pb₁₂]³⁻†

Lei-Jiao Li,

‡^a Fu-Xing Pan,‡^ab Feng-Yu Li,^c Zhong-Fang Chen

*^c and Zhong-Ming Sun

*^ad

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^a State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China
E-mail: szm@ciac.ac.cn

^b Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province and State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China

^c Department of Chemistry, Institute for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00931, USA
E-mail: zhongfangchen@gmail.com

^d State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China

Abstract

We report the synthesis, characterization and DFT studies of a transition-metal-encapsulated superatom compound, [K(2,2,2-crypt)]₃[Au@Pb₁₂]·2py, which adopts a distorted symmetry instead of the icosahedral structure due to the second-order Jahn–Teller effect. DFT computations revealed its chemical bonding nature and aromatic character, and assigned the formal electronic structure as [Au⁻@Pb₁₂²⁻]³⁻.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7QI00209B
Article type: Research Article
Submitted: 20 Apr 2017
Accepted: 10 Jul 2017
First published: 11 Jul 2017

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Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 1393-1396

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Synthesis, characterization and electronic properties of an endohedral plumbaspherene [Au@Pb₁₂]³⁻

L. Li, F. Pan, F. Li, Z. Chen and Z. Sun, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 1393 DOI: 10.1039/C7QI00209B

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