The carbon− carbon triple bond of alkynes is one of the basic functional groups, its reactions
belonging to the foundations of organic chemistry. In the past decades, acetylene chemistry …

Metal nanostructures display a multitude of technologically useful properties that can be
tailored through fine-tuning of certain parameters, such as size, shape and composition. In …

Tailoring the size, controlling the morphology, and designing the metal–organic interface are
three promising strategies to improve the catalytic performance of monometallic noble-metal …

The Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira reaction is a powerful method for the formation of Csp2–Csp
bonds and has found application in a wide variety of areas including medicinal chemistry …

The controllable synthesis of noble metal alloy nanostructures with highly branched
morphology has attracted much attention because of their specific physical and chemical …

This article reports a facile synthesis of Pd‐Cu bimetallic tripods with a purity over 90%. Two
requirements must be met in order to form tripods: i) formation of triangular, plate‐like seeds …

Noble metallic nanocrystals (NMNCs) with highly branched morphologies are an exciting
new class of nanomaterials because of their great potential application in catalysis, sensing …

Growth of anisotropic nanostructures enables the manipulation of optical properties across
the electromagnetic spectrum by fine morphological tuning of the nanoparticles. Among …

The development of the seeded growth synthesis for gold nanorods provided the first simple,
convenient wet chemistry route to these nanomaterials. Over the past decade, the original …

Branched metal nanostructures are of great technological importance because of their
unique size-and shape-dependent properties. A kinetically controlled synthesis that uses …