A sandwich-type cluster containing Ge@Pd3 planar fragment flanked by aromatic nonagermanide caps

Hong-Lei Xu; Nikolay V. Tkachenko; Zi-Chuan Wang; Wei-Xing Chen; Lei Qiao; Alvaro Muñoz-Castro; Alexander I. Boldyrev; Zhong-Ming Sun

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19079-z

Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

A sandwich-type cluster containing Ge@Pd3 planar fragment flanked by aromatic nonagermanide caps

Hong-Lei Xu,
Nikolay V. Tkachenko,
Zi-Chuan Wang,
Wei-Xing Chen,
Lei Qiao,
Alvaro Muñoz-Castro,
Alexander I. Boldyrev,
Zhong-Ming Sun

Affiliations

Hong-Lei Xu: Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Nikolay V. Tkachenko: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University
Zi-Chuan Wang: Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Wei-Xing Chen: Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Lei Qiao: Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Alvaro Muñoz-Castro: Grupo de Química Inorgánicay Materiales Moleculares, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, El Llano Subercaseaux
Alexander I. Boldyrev: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University
Zhong-Ming Sun: Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19079-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Sandwich-type clusters containing heterometallic interlayers have remained elusive. Here, the authors present the structure of a cluster composed of two aromatic nonagermanide caps flanking an heterometallic Ge@Pd3 planar fragment, where the Ge center is formally zerovalent.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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