Issue 36, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Selective supramolecular assembly of multifunctional ligands on a Cu(111) surface: metallacycles, propeller trimers and linear chains†‡

Weihua Wang,*a   Shiyong Wang,a   Yuning Hong,b   Ben Zhong Tangb  and  Nian Lina  

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a Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
E-mail: whwang@ust.hk
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b Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Abstract

We studied the supramolecular assembly of a multifunctional ligand, cis-bis-terpyridine tetraphenyl ethylene, on a Cu(111) surface by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Three distinctive supramolecular structures, metallacycles, propeller-shaped clusters and extended linear chains, are formed under specific assembly conditions owing to different inter-molecular binding modes of Cu-coordination, van der Waals interaction and hydrogen bonding, respectively.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC12294K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Apr 2011
Accepted
27 Jul 2011
First published
09 Aug 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 10073-10075

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Selective supramolecular assembly of multifunctional ligands on a Cu(111) surface: metallacycles, propeller trimers and linear chains

W. Wang, S. Wang, Y. Hong, B. Z. Tang and N. Lin, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 10073 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC12294K

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