Carbon nanotube salts. Arylation of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Jayanta Chattopadhyay; Anil K Sadana; Feng Liang; Jonathan M Beach; Yunxuan Xiao; Robert H Hauge; W E Billups

doi:10.1021/ol050862a

Carbon nanotube salts. Arylation of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Org Lett. 2005 Sep 15;7(19):4067-9. doi: 10.1021/ol050862a.

Authors

Jayanta Chattopadhyay¹, Anil K Sadana, Feng Liang, Jonathan M Beach, Yunxuan Xiao, Robert H Hauge, W E Billups

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.

PMID: 16146353
DOI: 10.1021/ol050862a

Abstract

[reaction: see text] Carbon nanotube salts prepared by treating single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with lithium in liquid ammonia react readily with aryl iodides to give SWNTs functionalized by aryl groups.