Synthesis of Cu, Zn and bimetallic Cu/Zn brass alloy nanoparticles from metal amidinate precursors in ionic liquid or propylene carbonate with relevance to methanol synthesis

Nanoscale , 2014, Accepted Manuscript

DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05780A, Paper

Kai Schutte, Hajo Meyer, Christian Gemel, Juri Barthel, Roland Fischer, Christoph Janiak

The microwave-induced decomposition of the transition metal amidinates {[Me(C(NiPr)2]Cu}2 (1) and [Me(C(NiPr)2]2Zn (2) in the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([BMIm][BF4]) or in propylene carbonate (PC) gives copper and zinc nanoparticles...

The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry

Click for full article