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Dimuthu C Senevirathna1, Victoria L Blair1, Melissa V Werrett1
1School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia. phil.andrews@monash.edu.
Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
|March 5, 2016
Abstract:
The transformation of mineral bismuthinite, to Bi2S3 nanoparticles, via a simple two-step process is described. The reaction of bismuthinite with two aryldithoic acids gave the complexes; [Bi(S2C(C6H4)-4-CH3)3] and [Bi(S2C(C6H4)-4-OCH3)3]. Mild solution decomposition (120 °C) of these bismuth aryldithioates produced crystalline Bi2S3 nanorods.
