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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 May 7;55(38):5435–5438. doi: 10.1039/c9cc01339c

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

The ligand-exchange/phase-transfer procedure. We add one of the three acids to as-synthesized oleate-capped QDs, followed by DMF addition and removal of hexanes. We add KOH (aq.) to the QDs under N2 slowly, then mix rapidly and extract DMF with CHCl3.