Silver cluster

Ag-NaA zeolites Silver clusters Silver clusters, formed in X-ray irradiated samples at 77 K and annealed at 280 K, were characterized by electron spin resonance spectroscopy 556... 

Fig. 2.45. [Rh6C(CO)i5] /Ag adducts at different clusters/silver molar ratios. Reproduced with permission from Heaton BT, Strona L, Martinengos, Strumulo D, Albano VG, Braga D (1983) J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 2175...

Besides alkali metal clusters, silver clusters are in the focus of research over a long period. With its closed d shell and a single 5v electron the silver atom resembles the alkali configuration and shows a similar behaviour when it comes to cluster physics. Moreover, silver clusters are promising... 

Fayet P, Granzer F, Hegenbart G, Moisar E, Pischel B and Woste L 1985 Latent-image generation by deposition of monodisperse silver clusters Phys. Rev. Lett. 55 3002... 

The Model 412 PWR uses several control mechanisms. The first is the control cluster, consisting of a set of 25 hafnium metal rods coimected by a spider and inserted in the vacant spaces of 53 of the fuel assembhes (see Fig. 6). The clusters can be moved up and down, or released to shut down the reactor quickly. The rods are also used to (/) provide positive reactivity for the startup of the reactor from cold conditions, (2) make adjustments in power that fit the load demand on the system, (J) help shape the core power distribution to assure favorable fuel consumption and avoid hot spots on fuel cladding, and (4) compensate for the production and consumption of the strongly neutron-absorbing fission product xenon-135. Other PWRs use an alloy of cadmium, indium, and silver, all strong neutron absorbers, as control material. 

Dick and Styrus [63] report real-time resistivity measurements on shoek-loaded silver foils. The inferred vaeaney eoneentration is 1.5 x 10 per atomie site for samples shoek loaded to 10 GPa. The eombined effect of point-defect generation and reeombination to form vaeaney clusters, for example, can be influential on pulse-duration effeets such reload, release, and recovery. This topie has not yet reeeived the degree of experimental study that it deserves. 

In the reactions of 10.13a with alkali metal terr-butoxides cage expansion occurs to give the sixteen-atom cluster 10.15, in which two molecules of MO Bu (M = Na, K) are inserted into the dimeric structure. The cluster 10.13a also undergoes transmetallation reactions with coinage metals. For example, the reactions with silver(I) or copper(I) halides produces complexes in which three of the ions are replaced by Ag" or Cu" ions and a molecule of lithium halide is incorporated in the cluster. ... 

II. The change of the sign between these two models may be also important for clustering and the surface growth mechanism. In the selfconsistent theory, the silver atoms tend to establish bonds with palladium atoms, while in the non-selfconsistent theory, the Ag-Ag bonds are favored. This explains the differences between the concentration profiles calculated within the models I and II and the fact that they do not simply follow the variations of the on-site terms. 

These figures furnish a handy summary of solubility behavior. We see from Figure 10-5A that few chlorides have low solubilities. The few that do contain cations of metals clustered toward the right side of the periodic table (silver ion, Ag+, cuprous ion, Cu+, mercurous ion, HgJ2, and lead ion, Pb+2) but they do not fall in a single column. This irregularity is not un-... 

Like gold, silver readily forms insoluble (yellow) thiolates [Ag(SR)] primary alkylthiolates are thought to have non-molecular structures but with bulky tertiary alkyls (n = 8), probably having a cyclic structure. Addition of excess thiolate leads to the formation of clusters like Ag6(SPh)g, Ag5(SPh)7 and Ag5(SBu )6 (phosphine adducts are known, too). 

AgPh is a colourless solid [144] that is rather insoluble in non-donor solvents and appears to be polymeric (AgPh) (n > 10) in addition mixed compounds (AgPh) .AgN03 (n = 2,5) can also be obtained that involve silver clusters. Mesitylsilver is a thermally stable (but light-sensitive) white crystalline solid in the solid state it is tetrameric (in contrast to the pentameric copper and gold analogues) ... 

Gold, unlike silver, forms a wide range of cluster complexes [184] where the average oxidation state of the metal is below +1 they may be synthesized by reduction of gold(I) phosphine complexes ... 

Clusters of metal atoms can form colloidal suspensions. Colloidal clusters of copper, silver, and gold in glass are responsible for some of the vivid colors of stained glass in medieval cathedrals. Even aqueous suspensions of metal clusters are known (Fig. 8.45). 

Considerable effort has been expended on Ag atoms and small, silver clusters. Bates and Gruen (10) studied the spectra of sputtered silver atoms (a metal target was bombarded with a beam of 2-keV, argon ions produced with a sputter ion-gun) isolated in D, Ne, and N2. They found that an inverse relationship between Zett of the metal atom and the polarizability of rare-gas matrices (as determined from examination of... 

Ozin and Huber 112) synthesized and characterized very small silver particles, Ag n = 2-5) by conventional deposition methods, as well as by a novel technique that they have termed "cryophotoaggrega-tion. This study will be discussed in detail in Section III. Of interest here is a study of silver atoms and small, silver clusters entrapped in ice and high-molecular-weight paraffin (n-C22H46, n-C32Hg8) matrices 146) (see Figs. 7 and 8, and Tables IV and V). Besides the intriguing, multiple-site (solvation) occupancy of atomic silver in ice matrices, and their thermal and photochemical interconvertibility, their extremely... 

The copper system appears to behave similarly to the silver system, and it may be used here in order to illustrate the idea of "selective, naked-cluster cryophotochemistry 150,151). A typical series of optical-spectral traces that illustrate these effects for Cu atoms is given in Fig. 15, which shows the absorptions of isolated Cu atoms in the presence of small proportions of Cu2, and traces of Cus molecules. Under these concentration conditions, the outcome of 300-nm, narrow-band photoexcitation of atomic Cu is photoaggregation up to the Cus stage. The growth-decay behavior of the various cluster-absorptions allows unequivocal pinpointing of UV-visible, electronic transitions associated with Cuj and Cus 150). With the distribution of Cui,2,3 shown in Fig. 15, 370-nm, narrow-band excitation of Cu2 can be considered. Immediately apparent from these optical spectra is the growth (—10%) of the Cu atomic-resonance lines. Noticeable also is the concomitant... 

C. Relative Extinction-Coefficient Measurements for Naked Silver Clusters by Photoaggregation Techniques... 

Low-temperature, photoaggregation techniques employing ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy have also been used to evaluate extinction coefficients relative to silver atoms for diatomic and triatomic silver in Ar and Kr matrices at 10-12 K 149). Such data are of fundamental importance in quantitative studies of the chemistry and photochemistry of metal-atom clusters and in the analysis of metal-atom recombination-kinetics. In essence, simple, mass-balance considerations in a photoaggregation experiment lead to the following expression, which relates the decrease in an atomic absorption to increases in diatomic and triatomic absorptions in terms of the appropriate extinction coefficients. 

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