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A golden opportunity: Molecular oxygen is found to be converted into a superoxo (O2−) species upon complexation to gold-cluster anions containing an even number of Au atoms. Vibrational spectra (see scheme) reveal small variations in the extent of OO bond activation dependent upon the electron affinity of the parent cluster.
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Woodham et al. (2012) studied this question.
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