Native compounds as ligands for coinage metal nanoclusters

This book summarizes several chemical characteristics of coinage metals as their nanoclusters in their major practical versions for analytical approaches as their complexes. Basic publications from last years have been reviewed in which their nanoscale particles and clusters dispersed or chemical bonded with organic and inorganic sorbents have become more and more popular for their different practical applications. The new organic semiconductors with the controlled molecular architecture and major of their electronic conductivities are mentioned. Composite materials, their polynuclear structure, and their polar as well as lipophilic sorbents are considered. Data of neutral, cationic, anionic, and mixed silver, gold, copper, palladium, and platinum clusters dispersed or chemical bonded with organic and inorganic sorbents are combined. Major fields of the application of such clusters obtained are outlined. Their polynuclear structure immobilized on polar and lipophilic sorbents are described. Several variants of column and planar liquid chromatographic fractionations of unsaturated lipids are given. 1070 ref.; 1 fig.; 597 pp.