Synthesis of Cu2O coated Cu nanoparticles and their successful applications to Ullmann-type amination coupling reactions of aryl chlorides

Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Apr 7:(7):778-9. doi: 10.1039/b316147a. Epub 2004 Feb 23.

Abstract

We synthesized uniform Cu2O coated Cu nanoparticles from the thermal decomposition of copper acetylacetonate followed by air oxidation and used these nanoparticles as catalysts for Ullmann type amination coupling reactions of aryl chlorides