Silsesquioxanes as versatile organic-inorganic hybrids with terminal siloxyl sites have been utilized to construct diverse metallasilsesquioxane complexes, yet their niche in silver nanoclusters remains largely unexplored. Herein, we report the first silsesquioxane-protected superatomic silver nanocluster, [Ag40(Ph4Si4O8)6(tBuC≡C)8] (Ag40), acquired through an "adaptive multipath synthesis" that circumvent
Silsesquioxane-Protected Silver Superatom
Chengkai Zhang·Sun D·Wei‐Dan Si·Zhi Wang·Grigorii S. Astakhov·Аlexey N. Bilyachenko·Rakesh Kumar Gupta·Chen-Ho Tung·Fahri Alkan
