Decacene: On-Surface Generation

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Abstract

Acenes are intriguing molecules with unique electronic properties. The difficulties in their preparation owing to low stability under ambient conditions are apparent because successful syntheses of long unsubstituted acenes are still scarce, in spite of the great attention they have attracted. Only unsubstituted acenes up to heptacene have been isolated in bulk, with nonacene being the largest acene detected to date. Herein we use on-surface assisted reduction of tetraepoxy decacene precursors on Au(111) as the key step to generate unprecedented decacene which is visualized and its electronic resonances studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS).

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11945-11948
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume56
Issue number39
Publication statusPublished - 18 Sept 2017
Peer-reviewedYes

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PubMed 28771920
ORCID /0000-0001-9607-8715/work/142252631

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Keywords

  • acenes, decacene, deoxygenation, molecular resonance imaging, on-surface chemistry