TY - JOUR AU - Knoppe, Stefan AU - Kothalawala, Nuwan AU - Jupally, Vijay AU - Dass, Amala AU - Bürgi, Thomas TI - Ligand dependence of the synthetic approach and chiroptical properties of a magic cluster protected with a bicyclic thiolate PY - 2012 JF - ChemComm JA - ChemComm SN - 1359-7345 VL - 48 SP - 4630 EP - 4632 L1 - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2012/cc/c2cc00056c L2 - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2012/cc/c2cc00056c L3 - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/cc/c2cc00056c M3 - 10.1039/C2CC00056C UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2CC00056C N2 - Chiral gold clusters stabilised by enantiopure thiolates were prepared, size-selected and characterised by Circular Dichroism and mass spectrometry. The product distribution is found to be ligand dependent. Au25 clusters protected with camphorthiol show clear resemblance of their chiroptical properties with their glutathionate analogue. ID - 1288 ER -