Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

N-Heterocyclic carbene-based C-centered Au(I)-Ag(I) clusters with intense phosphorescence and organelle-selective translocation in cells

  • Zhen Lei,
  • Mizuki Endo,
  • Hitoshi Ube,
  • Takafumi Shiraogawa,
  • Pei Zhao,
  • Koichi Nagata,
  • Xiao-Li Pei,
  • Tomoya Eguchi,
  • Toshiaki Kamachi,
  • Masahiro Ehara,
  • Takeaki Ozawa,
  • Mitsuhiko Shionoya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31891-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Photoluminescent gold clusters have unique chemical and physical properties based on their perturbed electronic structures. Here, the authors report the synthesis of carbon-centered Au(I)-Ag(I) clusters with high phosphorescence quantum yields using N-heterocyclic carbene ligands.