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TY - JOUR
T1 - Oxidation of an organic adlayer
T2 - a bird's eye view
AU - Waldmann, Thomas
AU - Kuenzel, Daniela
AU - Hoster, Harry E.
AU - Gross, Axel
AU - Behm, R. Juergen
PY - 2012/5/30
Y1 - 2012/5/30
N2 - The reaction of O-2 with an adlayer of the oligopyridine 2-pheny1-4,6-bis(6-(pyridine-2-yl)-4-(pyridine-4-yl)pyridine-2-yl)-pyrimidine (2,4'-BTP), adsorbed on the (111) surfaces of silver and gold and on HOPG - which can be considered as a model system for inorganiclorganic contacts - was investigated by fast scanning tunneling microscopy (video STM) and dispersion corrected density functional theory (DFT-D) calculations. Only on Ag(111), oxidation of the 2,4'-BTP adlayer was observed, which is related to the fact that under the experimental conditions O-2 adsorbs dissociatively on this surface leading to reactive 0 adatoms, but not on Au(111) or HOPG. There is a distinct regiospecifity of the oxidation reaction caused by intermolecular interactions. In addition, the oxidation leads to a chiral ordering. The relevance of these findings for reactions involving organic monolayers is discussed.
AB - The reaction of O-2 with an adlayer of the oligopyridine 2-pheny1-4,6-bis(6-(pyridine-2-yl)-4-(pyridine-4-yl)pyridine-2-yl)-pyrimidine (2,4'-BTP), adsorbed on the (111) surfaces of silver and gold and on HOPG - which can be considered as a model system for inorganiclorganic contacts - was investigated by fast scanning tunneling microscopy (video STM) and dispersion corrected density functional theory (DFT-D) calculations. Only on Ag(111), oxidation of the 2,4'-BTP adlayer was observed, which is related to the fact that under the experimental conditions O-2 adsorbs dissociatively on this surface leading to reactive 0 adatoms, but not on Au(111) or HOPG. There is a distinct regiospecifity of the oxidation reaction caused by intermolecular interactions. In addition, the oxidation leads to a chiral ordering. The relevance of these findings for reactions involving organic monolayers is discussed.
KW - SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY
KW - AUGMENTED-WAVE METHOD
KW - PYROLYTIC-GRAPHITE
KW - SURFACE
KW - OXYGEN
KW - AG(111)
KW - ADSORPTION
KW - ASSEMBLIES
KW - MOLECULE
KW - PYRIDINE
U2 - 10.1021/ja302593v
DO - 10.1021/ja302593v
M3 - Journal article
VL - 134
SP - 8817
EP - 8822
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
SN - 0002-7863
IS - 21
ER -