Effect of Ligand Structures on Ligand-Protected Gold Clusters: [Au-(-/-/-MBT)] Clusters.

The controllable preparation of ligand-protected clusters is still an unresolved problem, which may be due to that their formation mechanism is unclear. We propose that the ligand is the key to solve the above problems. Here, by using -, -, and -methylbenzenethiol ligand protected gold clusters as examples, we try to explore the effect of ligand structures on ligand-protected gold clusters.