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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3014
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- Core Research Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) Program of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24685011] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Although discrete nano-sized compounds consisting of a monolayer sheet of multiple atoms have attracted much attention, monolayer transition metal nanosheets are difficult to access. Here we report a template synthesis of the folding metal nanosheet (2) consisting of 11 palladium atoms by treatment of a ladder polysilane, decaisopropylbicyclo[2.2.0] hexasilane (1), with Pd((CNBu)-Bu-t)(2). Crystallographic analysis reveals that the compound is composed of two monolayer Pd-7 sheets sharing three palladium atoms at the junction. Each Pd atom is stabilized by Pd-Si sigma-bonds, Pd-Pd bonds and coordination of isocyanides. Ligand exchange of 2 from (CNBu)-Bu-t to CN(2,4,6-Me-3-C6H2) is accompanied by structural rearrangement, leading to the formation of another folding Pd-11 nanosheet (3) consisting of two edge-sharing Pd7 sheets. The shapes of the Pd-7 sheets as well as the dihedral angle between the two Pd7 sheets are dependent on the substituent of the isocyanide ligand.
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