“…These so-called bismuth subnitrates were recently studied in order to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the condensation that lead to the formation of bismuth oxido nitrates with up to 38 bismuth atoms, e.g., in the nanoscaled [Bi 38 O 45 (NO 3 ) 24 ], using a combined in situ small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis approach, as well as electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) [ 16 , 17 , 18 ]. The Bi 38 O 45 core seems to be the most stable one among the bismuth oxido clusters, and various molecules of this type were reported recently, including sulfonates, salicylates, nitrates, and methacrylates [ 13 , 14 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]. However, most of them suffer from either low hydrolytic stability at the ligand periphery, low solubility, low biocompatibility of their ligands, or accessibility on a large scale.…”