HCl‐Induced Nuclearity Convergence in Diphosphine‐Protected Ultrasmall Gold Clusters: A Novel Synthetic Route to “Magic‐Number” Au₁₃ Clusters

Abstract

A magic-number Au13 cluster with icosahedral geometry can be exclusively generated from a polydisperse mixture of ultrasmall 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane-coordinated gold clusters upon treatment with HCl, which acts as an efficient promoter. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.