Abstract

The reaction under very mild conditions of the polyspirophosphazene copolymer with pendant diphenylphosphine groups [NP(O 2C 12H 8)] 0.85[NP(OC 6H 4PPh 2) 2] 0.15} n (I) (O 2C 12H 8= 2,2'-dioxybiphenyl) with [Au(THT)Cl] (THT = tetrahydrothiophene) gives the neutral polymeric complex {[NP(O 2C 12H 8)] 0.85[NP(OC 6H 4PPh 2-AuCl) 2] 0.15} n (II). The new material has been characterized by spectrocopic and thermochemical methods (TGA and DSC). Pyrolysis of the Au polymer (I) in air at 800°C gave gold nanostructured materials that were characterized by TEM, SEM-EDAX and X-ray diffraction. Nanoparticles in the range of 90 to 130 nm were seen. © 2006 Springer-Verlag.