- Gu, Bin;
- Sun, Chenglin;
- Fettinger, James C;
- Casey, William H;
- Dikhtiarenko, Alla;
- Gascon, Jorge;
- Koichumanova, Kamila;
- Babu Sai Sankar Gupta, Karthick;
- Jan Heeres, Hero;
- He, Songbo
Herein we present the first example of a glycol-coordinated ε-Keggin Al13 chloride (gl-ε-Al13), which is the first chelated version since discovery of Al13 in 1960. The molecular structure consists of [AlO4Al12(OH)12(OC2H4OH)12]Cl7·H2O units with chelating mono-anionic ethylene glycol units replacing one bridging and one terminal oxygen site.