Letter

New J. Chem., 2009, 33, 1837 - 1840, DOI: 10.1039/b905559b

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N-Heterocyclic carbene coated metal nanoparticles

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

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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.

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