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Strong Metal–Adsorbate Interactions Increase the Reactivity and Decrease the Orientational Order of OH-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers

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How to Get Them on: N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs) on Surfaces

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Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy in studies of self-assembled monomolecular films

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Writing with Molecules: Tip-Induced Local Chemisorption of N-Heterocyclic Olefins on Cu(111)

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N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers on Metal-Oxide Films: Correlations between Adsorption Mode and Surface Functionality

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Strong Substrate–Adsorbate Interactions Direct the Impact of Fluorinated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers on Au Surface Properties

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Ein elektronenreiches cyclisches (Alkyl)(amino)carben auf Au(111)‐, Ag(111)‐ und Cu(111)‐Oberflächen

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Using LDI-MS to Explore Amide Coupling Reactions with Carboxylate Terminated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers

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N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes: Molecular Porters of Surface Mounted Ru‐Porphyrins

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Chemically Interrogating N-Heterocyclic Carbenes at the Single-Molecule Level Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

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