Opportunistic use of tetrachloroaurate photolysis in the generation of reductive species for the production of gold nanostructures |
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Authors: | McGilvray Katherine L Granger Jenna Correia Maria Banks Jeffrey T Scaiano J C |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5. |
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Abstract: | The photolysis of gold salts is rarely viewed as the initiation for gold nanoparticle (AuNP) formation. Yet, photolysis of AuCl(4)(-) generates chlorine atoms whose rich hydrogen transfer chemistry can readily generate strongly reducing radicals. Interesting precursors include hydrogen peroxide, 2-propanol, 1,4-cyclohexadiene and tetrahydrofuran; all of them yield strongly reducing radicals. Further, this group of substrates has been selected because of the innocuous and volatile nature of reagents and products, thus allowing a remarkably clean synthesis of gold nanostructures. In the case of H(2)O(2) the by-products are water and oxygen. The methodology reported here opens the door to particles that can be modified in situ or post-synthesis with custom surface covering without concern for chemical debris from the nanostructure synthesis. |
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