Reactivity of gold nanoparticles towards N-heterocyclic carbenes

María Rodríguez-Castillo (1) , Danielle Laurencin (1) , Frederik Tielens (2) , Lee Arie van Der (3) , Sébastien Clément (1) , Yannick Guari (1) , Sébastien Richeter (1)

1 ICGM ICMMM - Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux de Montpellier
2 LCMCP (site Paris VI) - Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (site Paris VI)
3 IEM - Institut Européen des membranes

The reaction of gold nanoparticles with benzimididazol-2-ylidene ligands leads to the formation of well-defined bis-carbene gold(I) complexes, as shown by characterization techniques such as powder XRD and solid state NMR.

Domains: Coordination chemistry; Material chemistry

María Rodríguez-Castillo, Danielle Laurencin, Frederik Tielens, Lee Arie van Der, Sébastien Clément, et al.. Reactivity of gold nanoparticles towards N-heterocyclic carbenes. Dalton Transactions, 2014, 43, pp.5978-5982. ⟨10.1039/c3dt53579g⟩. ⟨hal-00965550⟩