Synthesis of Cu2O coated Cu nanoparticles and their successful applications to Ullmann-type amination coupling reactions of aryl chloridesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: detailed experimental procedure for the catalytic reactions. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b3/b316147a/

Abstract

We synthesized uniform Cu₂O coated Cu nanoparticles from the thermal decomposition of copper acetylacetonate followed by air oxidation and used these nanoparticles as catalysts for Ullmann type amination coupling reactions of aryl chlorides