We thank the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21701168), Liaoning Natural Science Foundation (No. 20170540897),open project Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University (No. 201709);Shanxi Province Hundred Talent Project;BL14B and BL17B beamline of National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility for providing the beam time.
We developed a general and effective strategy to afford rod-like [Au25(SPh)5(PPh3)10X2]X2 (X = Cl/Br) nanoclusters, capped by conjugated delocalized pπ electron mediated ligands. The detailed atomic structure of thes...