The influence of the chain length and the functional group steric accessibility of thiols on the phase transfer efficiency of gold nanoparticles from water to toluene

Polish Journal of Chemical Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-91

  Soliwoda, Katarzyna ^a   Tomaszewska, Emilia ^a   Tkacz Szczesna, Beata ^a   Rosowski, Marcin ^a   Celichowski, Grzegorz ^a   Grobelny, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

1,1 dimethyldecanethiol; 1 decanethiol; 1 dodecanethiol; 1 oktadecanethiol; 1 tetradecanethiol; Gold nanoparticles; Phase transfer; Thiols

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898634982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18994741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/pjct-2014-0015     Document Type: Article

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