Lauren E. Marbella, Scott E. Crawford, Michael J. Hartmann and Jill E. Millstone
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 9020-9023
DOI:
10.1039/C6CC00464D,
Communication
Here, we use solution and solid-state 31P NMR to study the ligand environment of water soluble, phosphine-terminated gold nanoparticles. The resulting spectra indicate that particle-bound phosphine ligands occupy an unexpectedly monodisperse ligand environment. This uniformity then facilitates one of the first descriptions of distinct 31P–197Au coupling in colloidal nanoparticles.
