Ultrastable Gold Nanoparticles Modified by Bidentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands

Autor: Cathleen M. Crudden, Masakazu Nambo, Alexander Rousina-Webb, Lisa N. Saunders, Michael W. A. MacLean, Chien-Hung Li, Olena V. Zenkina, Renee W. Y. Man, Matthew T. Zamora
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140:1576-1579
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08516
Popis: Highly stable gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) functionalized by bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands have been synthesized by top-down and bottom-up approaches. A detailed study of the effect of alkylation, denticity, and method of synthesis has led to the production of NHC-stabilized nanoparticles with higher thermal stability than bi- and tridentate thiol-protected Au NPs and than monodentate NHC-stabilized NPs. Importantly, bidentate NHC-protected NPs also displayed unprecedented stability to external thiol, which has been an unsolved problem to date with all nanoparticles. Thus, multidentate NHC ligands are an important, and as yet unrecognized, step forward for the preparation of high stability nanomaterials.
Databáze: OpenAIRE