A New Nanometer-Sized Ga(III)-Oxyhydroxide Cation

William H. Casey; Marilyn M. Olmstead; Caitlyn R. Hazlett; Chelsey Lamar; Tori Z. Forbes

doi:10.3390/inorganics3010021

Inorganics (Feb 2015)

A New Nanometer-Sized Ga(III)-Oxyhydroxide Cation

William H. Casey,
Marilyn M. Olmstead,
Caitlyn R. Hazlett,
Chelsey Lamar,
Tori Z. Forbes

Affiliations

William H. Casey: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Marilyn M. Olmstead: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Caitlyn R. Hazlett: Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97043, USA
Chelsey Lamar: Department of Chemistry, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059, USA
Tori Z. Forbes: Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics3010021
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 21 – 26

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A new 30-center Ga(III)-oxy-hydroxide cation cluster was synthesized by hydrolysis of an aqueous GaCl3 solution near pH = 2.5 and crystallized using 2,6-napthalene disulfonate (NDS). The cluster has 30 metal centers and a nominal stoichiometry: [Ga30(μ4-O)12(μ3-O)4(μ3-OH)4(μ2-OH)42(H2O)16](2,6-NDS)6, where 2,6-NDS = 2,6-napthalene disulfonate This cluster augments the very small library of Group 13 clusters that have been isolated from aqueous solution and closely resembles one other Ga(III) cluster with 32 metal centers that had been isolated using curcurbit ligands. These clusters have uncommon linked Ga(O)4 centers and sets of both protonated and unprotonated μ3-oxo.

Published in Inorganics

ISSN: 2304-6740 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry: Inorganic chemistry
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/Inorganics

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