A tetranuclear nickel cluster isolated in multiple high-valent states
- 15 April 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 56 (59), 8182-8185
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cc01699c
Abstract
We report a series of high-valent tetranuclear nickel clusters isolated from the chemical oxidation of an all Ni(II) ([Ni4]) neutral cluster. Electrochemical analysis of [Ni4] reveals three reversible sequential oxidations at 0.248 V (1e−), 0.678 V (1e−), and 0.991 V (2e−) vs. Fc/Fc+ corresponding to mono-, di-, and tetra-oxidized species, [Ni4]+, [Ni4]2+, [Ni4]4+, respectively. Using spectroscopic, crystallographic, magnetometric, and computational techniques, we assign the primary loci of oxidations to the Ni centers in each case, thus resulting in the isolation of the first tetranuclear all-Ni(III) cluster, [Ni4]4+.Keywords
Funding Information
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Institut Universitaire de France
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