VOLUME 21, NUMBER 7
APRIL 14, 2009
Copyright 2009 by the American Chemical Society
Communications 9-BBN Induced Synthesis of Nearly Monodisperse ω-Functionalized Alkylthiol Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles Rajesh Sardar† and Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry* Department of Chemistry, UniVersity of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, RM 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 ReceiVed October 28, 2008
Different wet-chemical synthetic methods have emerged for the generation of nanometer-scale metal particles which display size, shape, and organization dependent optical properties that are exploited in a wide range of fields.1,2 The synthesis of monodisperse gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with average diameters of
