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Published December 4, 2023 | Published
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High‐Spin and Reactive Fe₁₃ Cluster with Exposed Metal Sites

Abstract

AbstractAtomically 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.

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Acknowledgement

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.

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The data that support the findings of this study are available in the supplementary material of this article.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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