carbon atoms on a Cu (110) surface was investigated with variable-temperature scanning
tunneling microscopy. QA16C molecules prefer to assemble at 150 K into short homochiral
molecular lines with two enantiomorphous orientations in which the lateral alkyl chains
exhibit partial disorder. With increasing sample temperatures, the QA16C lines form larger
well-ordered homochiral domains. As a reason for the homochiral recognition, we identify a …