Mounting Freestanding Molecular Functions onto Surfaces: The Platform Approach

• DOI: 10.1021/ja807923f
• Publication Date: 2008-12-29T15:32:11Z
• Authors: Belinda Baisch; Diego Raffa; Ulrich Jung; Olaf M. Magnussen; Cyril Nicolas; Jerome Lacour; Jens Kubitschke; Rainer Herges
• Keywords: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/540; ddc:540; 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

A modular system has been developed to mount molecules upright onto metal surfaces in a well controlled geometry. The approach is based on reactive platform (triazatriangulenium salt) with an electrophilic center. Functional are attached via C-C bond formation. distance from the surface can be varied by spacer, and of functional units each other size platform. Self-assembly parent triazaangulenium salt as functionalized platforms Au(111) results stable, hexagonally ordered adlayers.