Nag, Ashish; Batista, Laysa Mariela Frias; Tibbetts, Katharine Moore published their research in Nanomaterials in 2021. The article was titled 《Synthesis of air-stable Cu nanoparticles using laser reduction in liquid》.Reference of Bis(acetylacetone)copper The article contains the following contents:
We report the synthesis of air-stable Cu nanoparticles (NPs) using the bottom-up laser reduction in liquid method. Precursor solutions of copper acetlyacetonate in a mixture of methanol and iso-Pr alc. were irradiated with femtosecond laser pulses to produce Cu NPs. The Cu NPs were left at ambient conditions and analyzed at different ages up to seven days. TEM anal. indicates a broad size distribution of spherical NPs surrounded by a carbon matrix, with the majority of the NPs less than 10 nm and small numbers of large particles up to ~100 nm in diameter XRD collected over seven days confirmed the presence of fcc-Cu NPs, with some amorphous Cu2O, indicating the stability of the zero-valent Cu phase. Raman, FTIR, and XPS data for oxygen and carbon regions put together indicated the presence of a graphite oxide-like carbon matrix with oxygen functional groups that developed within the first 24 h after synthesis. The Cu NPs were highly active towards the model catalytic reaction of para-nitrophenol reduction in the presence of NaBH4. After reading the article, we found that the author used Bis(acetylacetone)copper(cas: 13395-16-9Reference of Bis(acetylacetone)copper)
Bis(acetylacetone)copper(cas: 13395-16-9) catalyzes coupling and carbene transfer reactions. Metal acetylacetonates are used as catalysts for polymerization of olefins and transesterification. Reference of Bis(acetylacetone)copper
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Copper catalysis in organic synthesis – NCBI,
Special Issue “Fundamentals and Applications of Copper-Based Catalysts”