Gu Bin, Sun Chenglin, Fettinger James C, Casey William H, Dikhtiarenko Alla, Gascon Jorge, Koichumanova Kamila, Babu Sai Sankar Gupta Karthick, Jan Heeres Hero, He Songbo
Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, P. R. China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Apr 19;54(33):4148-4151. doi: 10.1039/c8cc01363b.
Herein we present the first example of a glycol-coordinated ε-Keggin Al13 chloride (gl-ε-Al13), which is the first chelated version since discovery of Al13 in 1960. The molecular structure consists of [AlO4Al12(OH)12(OC2H4OH)12]Cl7·H2O units with chelating mono-anionic ethylene glycol units replacing one bridging and one terminal oxygen site.