Issue 21, 2004
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Chemical Communications

m-Terphenyl thiols: rigid and bulky molecules for the formation of bioactive self-assembled monolayers on gold†

Diane A. Dickie,a   Andy Y. C. Chan,a   Hanifa Jalali,a   Hilary A. Jenkins,b   Hua-Zhong Yu*a  and  Jason A. C. Clyburne*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
E-mail: clyburne@sfu.ca, hzyu@sfu.ca
Fax: +1 604 291 3765

b Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Abstract

The m-terphenyl 4-mercaptomethyl-2,6-diphenylbenzoic acid (3), was prepared and shown to form ω-carboxyl terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold with high surface pKa (10.1 ± 0.2) and low density favourable for the binding of biological macromolecules.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B410264A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Jul 2004
Accepted
04 Aug 2004
First published
22 Sep 2004

Chem. Commun., 2004, 2432-2433

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m-Terphenyl thiols: rigid and bulky molecules for the formation of bioactive self-assembled monolayers on gold

D. A. Dickie, A. Y. C. Chan, H. Jalali, H. A. Jenkins, H. Yu and J. A. C. Clyburne, Chem. Commun., 2004, 2432 DOI: 10.1039/B410264A

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