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Luo XM, Li YK, Dong XY, Zang SQ. Platonic and Archimedean solids in discrete metal-containing clusters. Chem Soc Rev 2023; 52:383-444. [PMID: 36533405 DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00582d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Metal-containing clusters have attracted increasing attention over the past 2-3 decades. This intense interest can be attributed to the fact that these discrete metal aggregates, whose atomically precise structures are resolved by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD), often possess intriguing geometrical features (high symmetry, aesthetically pleasing shapes and architectures) and fascinating physical properties, providing invaluable opportunities for the intersection of different disciplines including chemistry, physics, mathematical geometry and materials science. In this review, we attempt to reinterpret and connect these fascinating clusters from the perspective of Platonic and Archimedean solid characteristics, focusing on highly symmetrical and complex metal-containing (metal = Al, Ti, V, Mo, W, U, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, Au, lanthanoids (Ln), and actinoids) high-nuclearity clusters, including metal-oxo/hydroxide/chalcogenide clusters and metal clusters (with metal-metal binding) protected by surface organic ligands, such as thiolate, phosphine, alkynyl, carbonyl and nitrogen/oxygen donor ligands. Furthermore, we present the symmetrical beauty of metal cluster structures and the geometrical similarity of different types of clusters and provide a large number of examples to show how to accurately describe the metal clusters from the perspective of highly symmetrical polyhedra. Finally, knowledge and further insights into the design and synthesis of unknown metal clusters are put forward by summarizing these "star" molecules.
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- Xi-Ming Luo
- College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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- College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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- College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. .,College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China
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- College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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Electrochemical determination of glucose and H2O2 using Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) complexes of novel 2-(1,3-benzothiazol-2-ylamino)–N-(5-chloro-2-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide: Synthesis, structural characterization, antimicrobial, anticancer activity and docking studies. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.134483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Hamaguchi T, Ono D, Matsuda Y, Kawata S. Synthesis and X-ray crystallography of nonanuclear cobalt cluster and mononuclear cobalt complex: Effect of phosphine on the formation of cobalt complexes. Polyhedron 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2020.114803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Fiorini G, Carrella L, Rentschler E, Alborés P. Structural characterization and magnetic property studies of a mixed-valence {Co IIICo} complex with a μ 4-oxo tetrahedral {Co} motif. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:932-940. [PMID: 31868190 DOI: 10.1039/c9dt03561c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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We have synthesized and structurally characterized a new mixed valence pentanuclear Co complex, bearing a rare μ4-O-tetrahedral CoII4 unit, by employing a pyridine-like Schiff base ligand. We have performed DC magnetic susceptibility and magnetization measurements over polycrystalline samples and chemical quantum computations in order to understand the exchange interaction pattern within Co(ii) sites and ground state magnetic anisotropy. This new complex shows an overall antiferromagnetic exchange interaction whose strength strongly depends on the local symmetry of Co(ii) sites. Also, local ion magnetic anisotropy reveals a strongly axial behaviour with the lowest Kramers doublet (KD) at each Co(ii) ion sufficiently isolated from excited states at low temperatures. Two Co(ii) sites show tetrahedral symmetry and the spin only formalism including axial zero-field splitting (ZFS) term properly described them; on the other hand, the other two Co(ii) sites have distorted octahedral and square base pyramidal coordination spheres, and a strong orbital contribution leads to a failure of the spin only formalism. A model of four Seff = 1/2 exchange interacting sites is necessary in order to account for low temperature magnetization behaviour. In view of the strongly anisotropic KD states, the exchange interactions are forced to be modelled as anisotropic ones. Overall, experimental data and quantum chemical computations are in good agreement, supporting the proposed model for magnetic behaviour.
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- Guillermo Fiorini
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física/INQUIMAE (CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón 2, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Haiduc I. Inverse coordination – An emerging new chemical concept. Oxygen and other chalcogens as coordination centers. Coord Chem Rev 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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de Ruiter G, Thompson NB, Lionetti D, Agapie T. Nitric oxide activation by distal redox modulation in tetranuclear iron nitrosyl complexes. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:14094-106. [PMID: 26390375 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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A series of tetranuclear iron complexes displaying a site-differentiated metal center was synthesized. Three of the metal centers are coordinated to our previously reported ligand, based on a 1,3,5-triarylbenzene motif with nitrogen and oxygen donors. The fourth (apical) iron center is coordinatively unsaturated and appended to the trinuclear core through three bridging pyrazolates and an interstitial μ4-oxide moiety. Electrochemical studies of complex [LFe3(PhPz)3OFe][OTf]2 revealed three reversible redox events assigned to the Fe(II)4/Fe(II)3Fe(III) (-1.733 V), Fe(II)3Fe(III)/Fe(II)2Fe(III)2 (-0.727 V), and Fe(II)2Fe(III)2/Fe(II)Fe(III)3 (0.018 V) redox couples. Combined Mössbauer and crystallographic studies indicate that the change in oxidation state is exclusively localized at the triiron core, without changing the oxidation state of the apical metal center. This phenomenon is assigned to differences in the coordination environment of the two metal sites and provides a strategy for storing electron and hole equivalents without affecting the oxidation state of the coordinatively unsaturated metal. The presence of a ligand-binding site allowed the effect of redox modulation on nitric oxide activation by an Fe(II) metal center to be studied. Treatment of the clusters with nitric oxide resulted in binding of NO to the apical iron center, generating a {FeNO}(7) moiety. As with the NO-free precursors, the three reversible redox events are localized at the iron centers distal from the NO ligand. Altering the redox state of the triiron core resulted in significant change in the NO stretching frequency, by as much as 100 cm(-1). The increased activation of NO is attributed to structural changes within the clusters, in particular, those related to the interaction of the metal centers with the interstitial atom. The differences in NO activation were further shown to lead to differential reactivity, with NO disproportionation and N2O formation performed by the more electron-rich cluster.
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- Graham de Ruiter
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Han SD, Miao XH, Liu SJ, Bu XH. A series of cobalt and nickel clusters based on thiol-containing ligands accompanied by in situ ligand formation. Dalton Trans 2015; 44:560-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c4dt03109a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We report a series of cobalt and nickel clusters based on thiol-containing ligands, 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (HMBT) and 2-mercaptobenzimidazole (H2MBI), accompanied by in situ ligand transformation of HMBT. The magnetic properties of the cobalt clusters have been investigated.
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- Song-De Han
- Department of Chemistry
- TKL of Metal- and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
- Nankai University
- Tianjin 300071
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- TKL of Metal- and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
- Nankai University
- Tianjin 300071
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- TKL of Metal- and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
- Nankai University
- Tianjin 300071
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- TKL of Metal- and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
- Nankai University
- Tianjin 300071
- P. R. China
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Sutradhar M, Roy Barman T, Drew MG, Rentschler E. Mononuclear and tetranuclear Fe(III) complexes with two different types of N, O donor Schiff base ligands. J Mol Struct 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2013.02.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cui HH, Wang JY, Hu MQ, Ma CB, Wen HM, Song XW, Chen CN. Efficient photo-driven hydrogen evolution by binuclear nickel catalysts of different coordination in noble-metal-free systems. Dalton Trans 2013; 42:8684-91. [PMID: 23633025 DOI: 10.1039/c3dt50140j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Exploration of the complex Ni2(MBD)4 (MBD = 2-mercaptobenzimidazole) (C1) having different coordinated Ni atoms as a photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution is made. For comparison, the bimetallic Ni2(MBT)4 (MBT = 2-mercaptobenthiazole) (C2) complex with the same coordinated Ni atoms was synthesized. Both of the complexes have been successfully constructed for photo-induced hydrogen production using organic dyes as photosensitizers and triethanolamine (TEOA) as the effective electron donor by visible light (>400 nm) in acetonitrile-water solution. The time-dependence of H2 generation and DFT computational studies demonstrate that the complex C1 is more active than C2 for H2 evolution. The mechanisms of photocatalytic hydrogen generation for C1 and C2 involve different protonation sites resulting from the differences between the two structures.
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- Hong-hua Cui
- Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Sutradhar M, Carrella LM, Rentschler E. A Discrete μ4-Oxido Tetranuclear Iron(III) Cluster. Eur J Inorg Chem 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201200396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Lin PH, Korobkov I, Wernsdorfer W, Ungur L, Chibotaru LF, Murugesu M. A Rare μ4-O Centred Dy4 Tetrahedron with Coordination-Induced Local Chirality and Single-Molecule Magnet Behaviour. Eur J Inorg Chem 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201100038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Murali M, Nayak S, Sánchez Costa J, Ribas J, Mutikainen I, Turpeinen U, Clémancey M, Garcia-Serres R, Latour JM, Gamez P, Blondin G, Reedijk J. Discrete tetrairon(III) cluster exhibiting a square-planar Fe4(mu4-O) core: structural and magnetic properties. Inorg Chem 2010; 49:2427-34. [PMID: 20121207 DOI: 10.1021/ic902360x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The aerobic reaction of the Schiff-base ligand N-(benzimidazol-2-yl)salicylaldimine (Hbisi) with iron(II) perchlorate in methanol leads to the formation of the remarkable coordination compound [Fe(4)(mu(4)-O)(mu-MeO)(4)(bisi)(4)](ClO(4))(2) x 4 MeOH (1), whose single-crystal X-ray structure reveals the presence of a discrete Fe(III)(4)(mu(4)-O) core. Magnetic and Mossbauer studies both show that the exchange interaction within the square tetranuclear iron(III) unit is dominated by the central bridging mu(4)-oxido ligand, the involvement of the mu-methoxido bridges being negligible.
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- Mariappan Murali
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Jian F, Wang J, Xiao H, Zhao P, Sun P, Huang L. [60]Fullerene metal complexes with large effective two-photon absorption cross-section. Dalton Trans 2010; 39:11045-52. [DOI: 10.1039/b926935e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Frischmann PD, Gallant AJ, Chong JH, MacLachlan MJ. Zinc Carboxylate Cluster Formation in Conjugated Metallomacrocycles: Evidence for Templation. Inorg Chem 2007; 47:101-12. [DOI: 10.1021/ic701385m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Peter D. Frischmann
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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