The invention provides a
metal cluster containing a multilayer ligand spherical shell, a preparation method of the
metal cluster, a high-dispersion
metal catalyst and a preparation method and application of the high-dispersion
metal catalyst. The preparation method of the metal cluster comprises the following steps: dissolving a metal compound in a
mixed solution containing water, alcohols and a ligand, and mixing to obtain a metal precursor solution; sequentially adding a
solvent, a protective agent and a
reducing agent into the metal precursor solution, mixing, concentrating, stirring, and supplementing the
solvent; and repeating the operations of concentrating, stirring and supplementing the
solvent to obtain the metal cluster containing the multilayer ligand spherical shell. According to the high-dispersion
metal catalyst provided by the invention, the protective agent and the
reducing agent are added into the metal precursor solution, so that a metal cluster solution which is larger in
molecular size and contains multilayer ligand spherical shell protection is formed, steric hindrance exists among
metal clusters, and the resistance of the clusters in the aggregation process is increased; therefore, the effect of controlling the metal
dispersity is achieved, and the problems that an existing metal cluster is low in stability and difficult to use are solved.