Azide Passivation of Black Phosphorus Nanosheets: Covalent Functionalization Affords Ambient Stability Enhancement. Issue 5 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Yajuan; Gao, Pengfei; Zhang, Taiming; Zhu, Xianjun; Zhang, Mengmeng; Chen, Muqing; Du, Pingwu; Wang, Guan‐Wu; Ji, Hengxing; Yang, Jinlong; Yang, Shangfeng
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 58:Issue 5(2019)
• Page Start: 1479
• Page End: 1483
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: 2D nanosheets -- azides -- black phosphorus -- covalent functionalization -- nitrenes; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201813218
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

Abstract: Two‐dimensional (2D) black phosphorus (BP) has a unique band structure, but it suffers from low ambient stability owing to its high reactivity to oxygen. Covalent functionalization has been demonstrated to passivate the reactive BP effectively, however the reported covalent functionalization methods are quite limited to aryl diazonium and nucleophilic additions affording P−C and P−O−C single bonds, for which the retaining of one unpaired electron in the Group 15 phosphorus atom hampers the passivation effect. Now, covalent azide functionalization of BP nanosheets (BPNSs) is reported, leading to significant enhancement of the ambient stability of BP as confirmed by UV/Vis spectroscopic studies. The most stable configuration of the azide functionalized BPNSs (f‐BPNSs) is predicted by theoretical calculations, featuring the grafting of benzoic acid moiety onto BPNSs via the unprecedented P=N double bonds formed through in situ nitrene as a reactive intermediate. Abstract : Stabilizing black phosphorus (BP) via azide passivation : Azide functionalization is developed as a new covalent functionalization approach of BP nanosheets (BPNSs), leading to the formation of unprecedented P=N double bonds. These passivate the reactive BPNSs effectively and contribute to a dramatic enhancement of the ambient stability of BPNSs, with the degradation ratio inhibited by about 12 times relative to the pristine BPNSs.