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The preparation of organically functionalized chromium and nickel nanoparticles
1Chemistry Department, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, South Kensington, London, UK SW7 2AY.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 21, 2002
Abstract:
Nanoparticles of chromium or nickel have been prepared by the reduction of either CrCl2 or Ni(acac)2 (acac = pentane-2,4-dionate) at elevated temperatures in various Lewis base solvents; the effect of the Lewis base, which acts as both a reaction solvent and passivating ligand on morphology are apparent; the nanostructures have been analysed by NMR, IR, TEM and XRD.