Table 1.

Three physicochemically different series of NMs observed with class of aliphatic, aromatic and bulky thiolate ligands.

	Size	Citations
	SCH2CH2Ph (Aliphatic)
	Au25(SR)18	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 16209
	Au38(SR)24	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 6193
	Au67(SR)35	J. Phys. Chem. A, 2013, 504
	Au137(SR)56	Chem. Commun., 2014, 9895
	Au144(SR)60	J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 5035
	Au329(SR)84	Anal. Chem., 2014, 4227
	Au~940(SR)~160	ACS Nano, 2014, 6431
	-S-Ph-tBu (Aromatic)
	Au28(SR)20	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 10011
	Au36(SR)24	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 9175
	Au44(SR)28	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 13750
	Au52(SR)32	Nanoscale, 2016, 1299
	Au92(SR)44	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 8710
	Au102${\left(\text{SR}\right)}_{18}^{-}$	Chemtracts, 2007, 308
	Au133(SR)52	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 4610
	Au279(SR)84	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 15450
	-S-tBu (Bulky)
	Au24(SR)16	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 14933
	Au30(SR)18	J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 5000
	[198]Au46(SR)24	J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018
	Au65(SR)29	J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018