Carbon nanotube salts. Arylation of single-wall carbon nanotubes.
[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.
Chattopadhyay
Jayanta
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Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Sadana
Anil K
AK
Liang
Feng
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Beach
Jonathan M
JM
Xiao
Yunxuan
Y
Hauge
Robert H
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Billups
W E
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