Covalent on-surface polymerization

L Grill, S Hecht - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
With the rapid development of scanning probe microscopy, it has become possible to study
polymerization processes on suitable surfaces at the atomic level and in real space. In the …

Binding and electronic level alignment of π-conjugated systems on metals

A Franco-Cañellas, S Duhm, A Gerlach… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the binding and energy level alignment of π-conjugated systems on metals, a
field which during the last two decades has seen tremendous progress both in terms of …

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 …

Purely armchair or partially chiral: noncontact atomic force microscopy characterization of dibromo-bianthryl-based graphene nanoribbons grown on Cu (111)

C Sánchez-Sánchez, T Dienel, O Deniz, P Ruffieux… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report on the atomic structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) formed via on-surface
synthesis from 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthryl (DBBA) precursors on Cu (111). By means …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes on close-packed coinage metal surfaces: bis-carbene metal adatom bonding scheme of monolayer films on Au, Ag and Cu

L Jiang, B Zhang, G Médard, AP Seitsonen, F Haag… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
By means of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), complementary density functional
theory (DFT) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) we investigate the binding and …

Designer interphases for the lithium-oxygen electrochemical cell

S Choudhury, CTC Wan, WI Al Sadat, Z Tu, S Lau… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
An electrochemical cell based on the reversible oxygen reduction reaction: 2Li++ 2e−+ O2↔
Li2O2, provides among the most energy dense platforms for portable electrical energy …

Synthesis of armchair graphene nanoribbons from the 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthracene molecules on Ag (111): the role of organometallic intermediates

KA Simonov, AV Generalov, AS Vinogradov… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
We investigate the bottom-up growth of N= 7 armchair graphene nanoribbons (7-AGNRs)
from the 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthracene (DBBA) molecules on Ag (111) with the …

Strain‐induced isomerization in one‐dimensional metal–organic chains

M Telychko, J Su, A Gallardo, Y Gu… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to use mechanical strain to steer chemical reactions creates completely new
opportunities for solution‐and solid‐phase synthesis of functional molecules and materials …

On-surface photo-dissociation of C–Br bonds: towards room temperature Ullmann coupling

A Basagni, L Ferrighi, M Cattelan, L Nicolas… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The surface-assisted synthesis of gold-organometallic hybrids on the Au (111) surface both
by thermo-and light-initiated dehalogenation of bromo-substituted tetracene is reported …

Order from a mess: the growth of 5-armchair graphene nanoribbons

A Berdonces-Layunta, F Schulz, F Aguilar-Galindo… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The advent of on-surface chemistry under vacuum has vastly increased our capabilities to
synthesize carbon nanomaterials with atomic precision. Among the types of target structures …