Abstract
Atomically defined large metal clusters have applications in new reaction development and preparation of materials with tailored properties. Expanding the synthetic toolbox for reactive high nuclearity metal complexes, we report a new class of Fe clusters, Tp*4W4Fe13S12, displaying a Fe13 core with M−M bonds that has precedent only in main group and late metal chemistry. M13 clusters with closed shell electron configurations can show significant stability and have been classified as superatoms. In contrast, Tp*4W4Fe13S12 displays a large spin ground state of S=13. This compound performs small molecule activations involving the transfer of up to 12 electrons resulting in significant cluster rearrangements.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e202313880 |
Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 49 |
Early online date | 23 Oct 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Dec 2023 |
Funding
We are grateful to the National Institutes of Health (R01‐GM102687B to T.A.) and the National Science Foundation (Graduate Research Fellowships Program to A.G.S.) for funding, the Beckman Institute and the Dow Next Generation Grant for instrumentation support, Michael Takase and Lawrence Henling for assistance with crystallography. Part of this work (XAS data collection) was carried out at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE‐AC02‐76SF00515. XAS studies were performed with support of the NIH GM110501 (J.Y.). EAS gratefully acknowledges the University of Bath's Research Computing Group (doi.org/10.15125/b6cd‐s854) for their support in this work.
Keywords
- High-Spin
- Iron-Sulfur Clusters
- Magnetic Properties
- Metal-Metal Interactions
- Small Molecule Activation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- General Chemistry