Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Temperature dependence of spherical electron transfer in a nanosized [Fe14] complex

  • Wei Huang,
  • Shuqi Wu,
  • Xiangwei Gu,
  • Yao Li,
  • Atsushi Okazawa,
  • Norimichi Kojima,
  • Shinya Hayami,
  • Michael L. Baker,
  • Peter Bencok,
  • Mariko Noguchi,
  • Yuji Miyazaki,
  • Motohiro Nakano,
  • Takumi Nakanishi,
  • Shinji Kanegawa,
  • Yuji Inagaki,
  • Tatsuya Kawae,
  • Gui-Lin Zhuang,
  • Yoshihito Shiota,
  • Kazunari Yoshizawa,
  • Dayu Wu,
  • Osamu Sato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13279-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Fast intermetallic electron transfer is expected in principle in nanozised transition metal complexes, but has been prevented by the bridging ligands. Here the authors synthesize a mixed-valence iron metal-ligand nanocluster with cyanide bridges, showing extended delocalized electronic structure