Control of functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube photoluminescence via competition between thermal rearrangement and elimination

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Sep 28;59(78):11648-11651. doi: 10.1039/d3cc02965d.

Abstract

We conducted the chiral separation of functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with dibromopropane derivatives. Depending on their chirality and diameter, the thermal treatment of functionalized SWNTs leads to a shift in the emission radiation to longer wavelengths owing to rearrangement reaction in competition with elimination reaction.