Abstract
Place-exchange and amide-forming coupling reactions represent two facile and efficient routes to poly-functionalization of water-soluble nanoparticles. In this paper, place-exchange and amide-forming coupling reactions with water-soluble tiopronin-MPCs are described and their products characterized by 1H and 31P NMR, capillary electrophoresis, electrochemistry, and fluorescence spectroscopy. Place-exchange reactions of ligands with tiopronin-MPCs yield products with about half of the ligand exchange expected on the basis of solution stoichiometry and a nonselective exchange and were not noticeably affected by steric encumbrances. Tiopronin-MPCs to which viologens are coupled (avg 36/MPC) adsorb as monolayers on Au electrodes as shown in electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance experiments. Multilayer adsorption occurs on long experimental time scales. The strong adsorption of the viologen-functionalized clusters is ascribed to increased interaction and stability in the viologen reduction products. Capi...
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