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Aqueous Synthesis of Plasmonic Gold-Tin Alloy Nanoparticles
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Rapid synthesis of arylgold compounds using dielectric heating
Heather K Lenker1, Thomas G Gray, Robert A Stockland
1Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, 701 Moore Ave., Lewisburg, PA, USA.
Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
|October 3, 2012
Abstract:
Dielectric heating has been successfully used in the preparation of a range of arylgold compounds. The approach is tolerant of a number of functional groups and rapidly generates the organometallic complexes in moderate to excellent yields.
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