Controlling a chemical coupling reaction on a surface: tools and strategies for on-surface synthesis

S Clair, DG de Oteyza - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising research field aimed at
creating new organic materials. A large number of chemical reactions have been …

Supramolecular assemblies on surfaces: nanopatterning, functionality, and reactivity

DP Goronzy, M Ebrahimi, F Rosei, Arramel, Y Fang… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Understanding how molecules interact to form large-scale hierarchical structures on
surfaces holds promise for building designer nanoscale constructs with defined chemical …

Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling

M Lackinger - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling is the workhorse of on-surfaces synthesis. Among the
various couplings that were successfully transferred from solution to solid surfaces, Ullmann …

The Role of Metal Adatoms in a Surface‐Assisted Cyclodehydrogenation Reaction on a Gold Surface

J Björk, C Sánchez‐Sánchez, Q Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dehydrogenation reactions are key steps in many metal‐catalyzed chemical processes and
in the on‐surface synthesis of atomically precise nanomaterials. The principal role of the …

Chemisorption-induced formation of biphenylene dimer on Ag (111)

Z Zeng, D Guo, T Wang, Q Chen, A Matěj… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report an example that demonstrates the clear interdependence between surface-
supported reactions and molecular-adsorption configurations. Two biphenyl-based …

Confined on-surface organic synthesis: Strategies and mechanisms

T Wang, J Zhu - Surface Science Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
On-surface synthesis has been one of the hottest research fields in surface science in the
last decade, owing to its great potential for bottom-up synthesis of functional molecules and …

Generating antiaromaticity in polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons by thermally selective skeletal rearrangements at interfaces

E Pérez-Elvira, A Barragán, Q Chen, D Soler-Polo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antiaromatic polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons (PCHs) are attractive research targets
because of their interesting structural, electronic and magnetic properties. Unlike aromatic …

Kinetic strategies for the formation of graphyne nanowires via Sonogashira coupling on Ag (111)

T Wang, J Huang, H Lv, Q Fan, L Feng… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The selection of a reaction pathway with high energy barrier in a multipath on-surface
reaction system has been challenging. Herein, we report the successful control of the …

Steering On-Surface Reactions by Kinetic and Thermodynamic Strategies

T Wang, Q Fan, J Zhu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis has emerged as a powerful tool to fabricate various functional low-
dimensional nanostructures with atomic precision, thus becoming a promising platform for …

On-Surface Cyclization of ortho-Dihalotetracenes to Four- and Six-Membered Rings

C Sanchez-Sanchez, A Nicolaï, F Rossel… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report on the surface-catalyzed formal [2+ 2] and [2+ 2+ 2] cycloadditions of ortho-
activated tetracene species on a Ag (111) substrate under ultrahigh vacuum conditions …