Abstract
A rapid route to the chemical functionalization of hydrogen-terminated diamond surfaces deposited by chemical vapor deposition involving their reaction with substituted diaryl carbenes has been investigated. To avoid difficulties in the handling of highly reactive compounds, the carbene is generated in situ from the thermal decomposition at 400 K of a thin film of the corresponding diaryl diazomethane precursor deposited at the diamond interface. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has been used to verify that surface functionalization using two starting compounds, bis(4-iodophenyl) diazomethane and bis(4-nitrophenyl) diazomethane, can be achieved using this approach in agreement with recent theoretical studies. The surface grafting density is measured to be around 10(14) cm(-2) in each case. The chemistry observed is found to be insensitive to the detailed properties of the diamond film and to the presence of oxygen contamination at the hydrogen-terminated diamond surface. We further demonstrate the utility of the approach, in the case of the bound nitrophenyl compound, by its reduction to the corresponding primary amine followed by reaction with fluorescein isothiocyanate to achieve fluorescent tagging of the diamond interface.
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