Issue 2, 2016

Metalation of tetraphenylporphyrin with nickel on a TiO2(110)-1 × 2 surface

Abstract

The in situ metalation of tetraphenylporphyrin (2HTPP) with Ni on the reconstructed TiO2(110)-1 × 2 surface, resulting in the formation of adsorbed nickel(II)-tetraphenylporphyrin (NiTPP), has been investigated by synchrotron radiation photoemission spectroscopy (SRPES), scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and ab initio Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. The metalation can be realized at room temperature irrespective of the deposition order of Ni and 2HTPP, which however leads to different metalation degrees. Increasing the substrate temperature or Ni : 2HTPP ratio results in higher metalation degree, which ultimately reaches its limit at ∼85% (Ni : 2HTPP = 3 : 1) and ∼49% (Ni : 2HTPP = 1 : 1) for post- and pre-deposition of Ni, respectively. The reaction from 2HTPP to NiTPP is accompanied by changes of the molecular adsorption conformation and the adsorption site from a tilted two-lobed feature on added Ti2O3 rows to a four-lobed feature on top of troughs or cross-links of the TiO2(110)-1 × 2 surface. This interpretation of the STM data is supported by DFT-based STM simulations.

Graphical abstract: Metalation of tetraphenylporphyrin with nickel on a TiO2(110)-1 × 2 surface

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 May 2015
Accepted
03 Dec 2015
First published
07 Dec 2015

Nanoscale, 2016,8, 1123-1132

Author version available

Metalation of tetraphenylporphyrin with nickel on a TiO2(110)-1 × 2 surface

C. Wang, Q. Fan, Y. Han, J. I. Martínez, J. A. Martín-Gago, W. Wang, H. Ju, J. M. Gottfried and J. Zhu, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 1123 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR03134F

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