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Chemical Communications

Diameter-dependent, progressive alkylcarboxylation of single-walled carbon nanotubes†

Shunliu Deng,ab   Alexandra H. Brozena,a   Yin Zhang,ac   Yanmei Piaoa  and  YuHuang Wang*ad  

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a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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b Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

c Department of Physics, Xi'an JiaoTong University, Xi'an, China

d Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Abstract

We demonstrate diameter-dependent, progressive alkylcarboxylation of single-walled carbon nanotubes by recycling a modified Billups–Birch reaction. The strong diameter dependence was confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. Alkylcarboxylation made SWNTs soluble in water, allowing the more readily functionalized, smaller diameter nanotubes to be enriched by water extraction.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC03896B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Sept. 2010
Accepted
21 Okt. 2010
First published
11 Nov. 2010

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 758-760

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Diameter-dependent, progressive alkylcarboxylation of single-walled carbon nanotubes

S. Deng, A. H. Brozena, Y. Zhang, Y. Piao and Y. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 758 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03896B

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