A Facile Template Approach to High-Nuclearity Silver(I) Alkynyl Clusters

摘要

Cluster compounds have attracted a great deal of attention because of their appealing structural beauty and fascinating properties.The preparation of high-nuclearity clusters usually involves the complex assembly of multiple components; it is therefore a challenge to control the formation process of a cluster that contains many metal centers. One synthetic approach uses templates to induce the formation of cluster compounds. Although cationic and neutral species have been extensively used as templates in synthetic chemistry, anion-templated synthesis has been received much less attention. Recent examples have shown that anion templates play an important role in the syntheses of cluster compounds.