CuCl Nanoplatelets from an Ionic Liquid-Crystal Precursor

✍ Scribed by Andreas Taubert

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200460846

✦ Synopsis

Research on ionic liquids (ILs) has focused on the synthesis of and organic chemistry in ILs. Recently, however, ILs have also received attention from the inorganic materials community. Ionic liquids can act as solvents for reactants and morphology templates for the products at the same time, which enables the synthesis of inorganic materials with novel or improved properties. In principle, the IL can be retrieved after synthesis and thus provides an ecologically friendly and economical approach to inorganic materials. While ILs are promising "all-in-one" solvent/templates for the synthesis of inorganic materials, only a few reports on this topic have appeared; they have mainly focused on ordered metal oxides [1][2][3][4][5] and metal nanoparticles. [6][7][8] For a recent review on the structural organization in ionic liquids, see also ref. [9] Copper(i) chloride is extensively used as a desulfurizing agent in the petrochemical industry and as a catalyst for the denitration of cellulose; [10] there is thus considerable interest in improved CuCl systems. This paper introduces a novel

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