Li Lidong, Abou-Hamad Edy, Anjum Dalaver H, Zhou Lu, Laveille Paco V, Emsley Lyndon, Basset Jean-Marie
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Jul 21;50(57):7716-9. doi: 10.1039/c4cc02962c.
Preparing evenly-dispersed small size nickel nanoparticles over inert oxides remains a challenge today. In this context, a versatile method to prepare supported small size nickel nanoparticles (ca. 1-3 nm) with narrow size distribution via a surface organometallic chemistry (SOMC) route is described. The grafted mono(η(3)-allyl)nickel complexes ≡MONi(η(3)-C3H5) (M = Si or Al) as precursors are synthesized and fully characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR spectroscopy and paramagnetic solid-state NMR.
