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  • Title: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Reduce and Functionalize Copper Oxide Surfaces in One Pot.
    Author: Veinot AJ, Al-Rashed A, Padmos JD, Singh I, Lee DS, Narouz MR, Lummis PA, Baddeley CJ, Crudden CM, Horton JH.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2020 Sep 04; 26(50):11431-11434. PubMed ID: 32428330.
    Abstract:
    Benzimidazolium hydrogen carbonate salts have been shown to act as N-heterocyclic carbene precursors, which can remove oxide from copper oxide surfaces and functionalize the resulting metallic surfaces in a single pot. Both the surfaces and the etching products were fully characterized by spectroscopic methods. Analysis of surfaces before and after NHC treatment by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy demonstrates the complete removal of copper(II) oxide. By using 13 C-labelling, we determined that the products of this transformation include a cyclic urea, a ring-opened formamide and a bis-carbene copper(I) complex. These results illustrate the potential of NHCs to functionalize a much broader class of metals, including those prone to oxidation, greatly facilitating the preparation of NHC-based films on metals other than gold.
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