The weakly coordinated anionic nitrate ligands in a centrosymmetric Ag cluster are replaced in a stepwise manner by chiral amino acids and two achiral luminescent sulfonic-group-containing ligands while nearly maintaining the original silver(I) cage structure. This surface engineering enables the atomically precise Ag clusters to exhibit the high-efficiency synergetic effects of chirality and fluorescence, producing rare circularly polarized luminescence among the metal clusters with a large dissymmetry factor of (|g|) ≈ 5 × 10. This rational approach using joint functional ligands further opens a new avenue to diverse multifunctional metal clusters for promising applications.
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Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Narashino, Japan.
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College of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China.
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State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China. Electronic address:
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January 2025
Natinal Institute of Adavanced Industrial Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry, Higashi 1-1-1, 305-8565, Tsukuba, JAPAN.
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Beijing Normal University, College of Chemistry, Xiejiekou NO.19, 100875, Beijing, CHINA.
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