Held together by metal-metal bonds: a large ring containing 36 gold atoms

Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from the Universities of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Nanjing report their unusual compound in the journal Angewandte Chemie: the molecular ring structure is held together exclusively by gold -gold bonds and is thus the largest ring system made of gold atoms produced to date.

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