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Grafting of diazonium salts on oxides surface: formation of aryl-O bonds on iron oxide nanoparticles

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Combining ab initio modeling and 57Fe Mössbauer spectrometry, we characterized the nature of the chemical linkage of aminoalkyl arenediazonium salt on the surface of iron oxide nanoparticles. We established that it is built through a metal–oxygen–carbon bonding and not a metal–carbon one, as usually suggested and commonly observed in previously studied metal- or carbon-based surfaces.

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The authors are indebted to the French Education and Research Minister for the J.F. and K.B PhD’s Grants. They want to thank GENCI/IDRIS and CRIHAN national and regional facilities for computational time (projects x2014096171 and 007, respectively).

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    Jonathan Fouineau, Asma Eddarir, François Chau, Jean Pinson & Souad Ammar

  2. LUNAM Université du Maine, IMMM UMR CNRS 6283, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085, Le Mans, France

    Katarzyna Brymora, Jonathan Fouineau, Nader Yaacoub, Jean-Marc Grenèche & Florent Calvayrac

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Brymora, K., Fouineau, J., Eddarir, A. et al. Grafting of diazonium salts on oxides surface: formation of aryl-O bonds on iron oxide nanoparticles. J Nanopart Res 17, 438 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-015-3232-x

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