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coupling method was used to prepare (S)-4-phenylmandelic acid from (S)-
4-bromomandelic acid. The corresponding (S)-4-bromomandelic acid was
obtained from 4-bromoacetophenone bystandard procedures and was
resolved with 2. The substituted phenylethylamines were prepared from the
corresponding acetophenones bya standard Leuckardt procedure. A
Strecker reaction was used to prepare 4-methylphenylglycine, which was
reduced to 4-methylphenylglycinol.
Shape Control of Thermodynamically Stable
Cobalt Nanorods through Organometallic
Chemistry **
Frÿdÿric Dumestre, Bruno Chaudret,*
Catherine Amiens, Marie-Claire Fromen, Marie-
Josÿ Casanove, Philippe Renaud, and Peter Zurcher
Received: June 5, 2002
Revised: August 15, 2002 [Z19422]
The synthesis of nanoparticles is of fundamental impor-
tance for the development of novel technologies based on
nanomaterials. This is particularlytrue for magnetic nano-
materials which could be used, amongst other things, for high-
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template
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temperature preparation of 9 nm cobalt nanoparticles dis-
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[8] Reproducibilities are good; the experimentallydetermined error limit
of the S factor is ꢀ 5%.
[9] Analogous experiments with pure (S)-o-nitrophenylethylamine (5) as
the inhibitor led to a de value of 51% and an S factor of 0.55. With
pure (S)-p-nitrophenylethylamine as the inhibitor the de value was
62% and the S factor was 0.56. We conclude that use of the more
readilyavailable mixture instead of the pure materials is entirely
justified and allows direct comparison with the data given in ref. [3].
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the 1:1 mixture of o,p isomers for reasons of simplicity.
[11] The experimentallydetermined error limit is
experiment.
ꢀ 0.38C for this
magnetic anisotropyof the materials, with the goal of
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[12] The dissolution temperatures differ somewhat, owing to the high
concentrations in this experiment (1.6m); the experimentallydeter-
mined error limit is ꢀ 0.78C.
producing high-densitymemories.
Self-organized cobalt
nanoparticles have also been reported bythe group of Pileni
[8]
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usable for manyapplications, such as magnetic recording. One
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modifytheir shape. This problem has been addressed by
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[*] Dr. B. Chaudret, F. Dumestre, Dr. C. Amiens
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS
205, route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cÿdex 04 (France).
Fax : (þ 33)5-61-55-30-03
E-mail: chaudret@lcc-toulouse.fr
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F. Dumestre, Dr. P. Renaud
Digital DNA Labs, Semiconductor Products Sector, Motorola
le Mirail B.P. 1029, 31023 Toulouse Cÿdex (France)
M.-C. Fromen, Dr. M.-J. Casanove
CEMES-CNRS
29 Rue Marvig, BP 4347, F 31055 Toulouse, France.
Dr. P. Zurcher
Digital DNA Labs, Semiconductor Products Sector, Motorola
2100 E. Elliot Road, Tempe, AZ-85824 (USA)
[**] The authors thank CNRS and MOTOROLA S.P.S. for support, M.
Vincent Colliõre, Lucien Datas, and TEMSCAN service (Universitÿ
Paul Sabatier Toulouse) for transmission electron microscopy.
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