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Chem. Commun., 2009, 4354 - 4356, DOI: 10.1039/b822609a

A four-shell, 136-metal 3d-4f heterometallic cluster approximating a rectangular parallelepiped

Xiang-Jian Kong, La-Sheng Long, Rong-Bin Huang, Lan-Sun Zheng, T. David Harris and Zhiping Zheng

A nanosized heterometallic cluster containing 60 La(III) and 76 Ni(II) ions, which are arranged into a four-shell, nest-like framework structure, was obtained by the hydrolytic reaction of the mixed La(NO3)3–Ni(NO3)2 system using iminodiacetate as an ancillary ligand to control the hydrolysis.

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