Chemistry Letters, Vol.29, No.2, 162-163, 2000
Synthesis and crystal structure of a water-soluble, anionic octanuclear silver(I) cluster formed by 2-mercaptobenzoic acid (H(2)mba); K-12[Ag-8(mba)(10)]center dot 12H(2)O
We have prepared a novel water-soluble silver(I) complex showing effective antibacterial activities K-12[Ag-8(mba)(10)]. 12H(2)O (1a, H(2)mba = 2-mercaptobenzoic acid) from the Ag2O : H(2)mba : KOH = 1 : 4 : 8 molar ratio reaction in aqueous media and determined its crystal structure. The X-ray crystallography revealed that la was a discrete, anionic octanuclear silver(I) cluster consisting of two butterfly-type AE,SI subunits bridged by two mu(3)-S atoms.