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Chemical Communications

Surface-assisted dehydrogenative homocoupling and cyclodehydrogenation of mesityl groups on a copper surface†

Xinli Leng,‡ab   Yan Lu,‡a   Gang Feng, ORCID logo ‡c   Zhongping Wang,a   Wei Li,a   Xiaoqing Liu,a   Rongbin Zhang,c   Ning Zhang*c  and  Li Wang ORCID logo *ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China
E-mail: liwang@ncu.edu.cn

b Department of Physics, Nanchang Normal University, Nanchang 330032, P. R. China

c Institute of Applied Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China
E-mail: nzhang@ncu.edu.cn

d Nanoscale Science and Technology Laboratory, Institute for Advanced Study, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China

Abstract

We present for the first time an adjacent dehydrogenative homocoupling and cyclodehydrogenation reaction of mesityl groups to form a synthetic nanoribbon on Cu(110). Submolecular resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) observations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations confirm the formation of an ethylene (–CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH–) unit or an aromatic six-membered ring group.

Graphical abstract: Surface-assisted dehydrogenative homocoupling and cyclodehydrogenation of mesityl groups on a copper surface

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC03950F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 May 2017
Accepted
26 Jul 2017
First published
26 Jul 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 9151-9154

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Surface-assisted dehydrogenative homocoupling and cyclodehydrogenation of mesityl groups on a copper surface

X. Leng, Y. Lu, G. Feng, Z. Wang, W. Li, X. Liu, R. Zhang, N. Zhang and L. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 9151 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC03950F

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