Asst. Prof. Jonathan Kephart, Cornell University, USA

'Coordinative Tug-of-War on a Cluster Surface and the Making of Molecular Rust'

Ligand-stabilized inorganic clusters bridge molecular and materials chemistry, providing atomically precise platforms to model surface reactivity and quantum-confined inorganic fragments whose properties differ from those of bulk solids. This talk will describe well-defined, surface-like reactivity in a new class of ternary clusters and preliminary efforts toward the synthesis and reactivity of unusual molecular metal oxides. ...