On the shuttling mechanism of a chlorine atom in a chloroaluminum phthalocyanine based molecular switch

Huanjun Song; Cenfeng Fu; Na Li; Hao Zhu; Zhantao Peng; Wenhui Zhao; Jingxin Dai; Lingbo Xing; Zhichao Huang; Wei Chen; Yongfeng Wang; Jinlong Yang; Kai Wu

doi:10.1039/C7CP03153J

On the shuttling mechanism of a chlorine atom in a chloroaluminum phthalocyanine based molecular switch†

Huanjun Song,

^a Cenfeng Fu,^b Na Li,

^c Hao Zhu,^a Zhantao Peng,^a Wenhui Zhao,^a Jingxin Dai,^a Lingbo Xing,^a Zhichao Huang,^a Wei Chen,

^d Yongfeng Wang,

*^c Jinlong Yang

*^b and Kai Wu

*^a

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^a BNLMS, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
E-mail: kaiwu@pku.edu.cn

^b Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
E-mail: jlyang@ustc.edu.cn

^c Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
E-mail: yongfengwang@pku.edu.cn

^d Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore

Abstract

An intermediate shuttling structure of a chloroaluminum phthalocyanine(ClAlPc)-based molecular switch is transiently created and analyzed by combined scanning tunneling microcopy/spectroscopy and density-functional theory calculations, which suggests that the Cl atom is squeezed into the space between the central Al atom and the inner N-containing ring in ClAlPc.

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On the shuttling mechanism of a chlorine atom in a chloroaluminum phthalocyanine based molecular switch†

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