Aprile Carmela, Herranz María Angeles, Carbonell Esther, Garcia Hermenegildo, Martín Nazario
Instituto de Tecnología Quimica CSIC-UPV and Departamento de Quimica, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Av. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain.
Dalton Trans. 2009 Jan 7(1):134-9. doi: 10.1039/b814384f. Epub 2008 Nov 10.
Gold nanoparticles (npAu, 5 nm diameter) stabilized by hexanethiol and dodecanethiol do not exhibit in THF upon laser flash excitation (355 nm) any detectable transient in the microsecond timescale. However, using octadecanethiol as npAu ligand, a weak signal attributed to THF solvated electrons was observed after excitation 355 nm. In contrast, irrespective of the alkyl length of the thiol ligand, irradiation of npAu in 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquid allows detecting charge separation in the microsecond time scale. By quenching with methyl viologen (MV) and determining the concentration of MV(+) , it was estimated that the quantum yield of charge separation state in ionic liquid was 0.12.
