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Inducing Molecular Growth in an {Mo57Fe6}-type Nanocluster: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of \(\{\hbox{Mo}_{57}\hbox{(Mo)}_{2}\hbox{Fe}^{\rm III}_{6}\}\)*

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The reaction of the polyoxomolybdate anion \([\hbox{Mo}_{32}^{\rm VI}\hbox{(MoNO)}_{4}\hbox{O}_{108}(\hbox{H}_{2}\hbox{O})_{16}]^{12-} =\{\hbox{Mo}_{36}\hbox{(NO)}_{4}\}\) with FeII salts and hydrazine sulfate yields the cluster anion \([\hbox{Mo}^{\rm V/VI}_{51}(\hbox{Mo}^{\rm VI}\hbox{O})_{2}\hbox{Fe}^{\rm III}_{6}\hbox{(MoNO)}_{6}\hbox{O}_{176}\hbox{(OH)}_{3} (\hbox{H}_{2}\hbox{O})_{22}]^{15-}\) (1a), isolated as its corresponding ammonium salt (NH4)15 1a · 36H2O (1) (space group P63/mmc, a=b=23.607(5) Å, c=26.767(6) Å, 4076 unique reflections, 293 parameters). Despite the absence of oxygen and the reducing conditions the product comprises only FeIII centers as determined by a combination of spectroscopic, magnetic and crystallographic analysis. Reduction of peripheral Mo centers causes the aggregation of two additional [MoVIO]4+ groups onto the archetypal {Mo57M6} structure. The single-crystal X-ray determined structure of 1 is reported.

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Ames Laboratory is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Iowa State University under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-82. Y.L.M. thanks MRDA/CRDF for a travel fellowship (award no. MTFP-04–03). We thank Professor B. H. Huynh for the 57Fe Mössbauer data.

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    John Fielden, Yurii L. Malaestean & Paul Kögerler

  2. Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Arkady Ellern

  3. Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA

    Ricardo García-Serres

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK

    Leroy Cronin

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Fielden, J., Malaestean, Y.L., Ellern, A. et al. Inducing Molecular Growth in an {Mo57Fe6}-type Nanocluster: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of \(\{\hbox{Mo}_{57}\hbox{(Mo)}_{2}\hbox{Fe}^{\rm III}_{6}\}\)*. J Clust Sci 17, 291–302 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-006-0053-1

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