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- Title
Highly Strained Nanoscale Bicyclophane Monolayers Entering the Third Dimension: A Combined Synthetic and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigation.
- Authors
Henzel, Sebastian; Becker, Steven; Hennen, Daniel; Keller, Tristan J.; Bahr, Joshua; Jester, Stefan-S.; Höger, Sigurd
- Abstract
Tetrabromo aromatics can be synthesized by the Fischer- Zimmermann condensation of appropriate pyrylium salts with arylene dicarboxylic acid salts. Their cyclization by intramolecular Yamamoto coupling yields strained bicyclophanes with adjustable sizes and different intraannular bridges. All compounds adsorb at the solid/liquid interface on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and are investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with submolecular resolution. The observed two-dimensional (2D) supramolecular nanopatterns depend only on the sizes and alkoxy periphery of the cyclophanes and are independent of the specific structures of the intraannular bridges. Since the central arylene moieties of the smaller species are oriented perpendicular to the planes of the bicyclophanes, their substituents protrude from the surface by up to 1.6 nm after adsorption. Therefore, these molecules are attractive platforms for addressing the volume phase above the graphite surface.
- Subjects
SCANNING tunneling microscopy; MONOMOLECULAR films; PYROLYTIC graphite; SCANNING probe microscopy; DICARBOXYLIC acids
- Publication
ChemPlusChem, 2021, Vol 86, Issue 6, p803
- ISSN
2192-6506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cplu.202000711