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N-Heterocyclic carbene coated metal nanoparticles

2009; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 33; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/b905559b

1369-9261

Eleanor C. Hurst, Karen Wilson, Ian J. S. Fairlamb, Victor Chechik,

Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis

N-Heterocyclic carbene coated Au and Pd nanoparticles have been prepared by a ligand exchange reaction; although carbenes quantitatively displaced the thioether and phosphine ligands from the nanoparticle surface, the resultant nanoparticles spontaneously leached metal complexes and aggregated in solution.