Understanding Ligand-Exchange Reactions on Thiolate-Protected Gold Clusters by Probing Isomer Distributions Using Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 9347-9356

  Niihori, Yoshiki ^a   Kikuchi, Yoshihiro ^a   Kato, Ayano ^a   Matsuzaki, Miku ^a   Negishi, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

coordination isomer; isomer distribution; ligand exchange reaction; reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography; thiolate protected gold clusters

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOMERS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LIGANDS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUIDS; PALLADIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

COORDINATION ISOMERS; GOLD CLUSTERS; ISOMER DISTRIBUTIONS; LIGAND EXCHANGE REACTIONS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

COORDINATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84940481876     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03435     Document Type: Article

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