Terbium and Vanadium Metal Nanoparticles Reactive Starting Materials for Liquid-Phase Syntheses.

ABSTRACT: Lanthanide metals and early transition metals - although in principle highly reactive - only show a limited reactivity due to small surface, low solubility, and/or passivation. To this regard, small-sized metal nanoparticles can give the opportunity for reactions near room temperature in the liquid phase. With terbium-metal nanoparticles (2.8 ± 0.4 nm) and vanadium-metal nanoparticles (1.2±0.2 nm), representative lanthanide and early-transition metals are presented with different reactivity. Both are prepared by reduction of simple precursors (TbCl₃, VCl₃) in THF. The Tb(0)/V(0) nanoparticles are highly reactive and used as starting materials in the liquid phase (THF, toluene, n-dodecane, ionic liquid) to perform reactions with cyclopentadienyl precursors [Cp₂

SUBMITTER: Reiß A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12332814 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature