Synthesis of armchair graphene nanoribbons from the 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthracene molecules on Ag (111): the role of organometallic intermediates

KA Simonov, AV Generalov, AS Vinogradov… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
We investigate the bottom-up growth of N= 7 armchair graphene nanoribbons (7-AGNRs)
from the 10, 10′-dibromo-9, 9′-bianthracene (DBBA) molecules on Ag (111) with the …

Copper-assisted oxidation of catechols into quinone derivatives

AC Gómez-Herrero, C Sánchez-Sánchez… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Catechols are ubiquitous substances often acting as antioxidants, thus of importance in a
variety of biological processes. The Fenton and Haber–Weiss processes are thought to …

Role of substrate in directing the self-assembly of multicomponent supramolecular networks at the liquid–solid interface

T Balandina, K Tahara, N Sändig, MO Blunt… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly of multicomponent networks at the liquid–solid interface between Au
(111) or highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and organic solvents was investigated …

Supramolecular tessellations at surfaces by vertex design

L Feng, T Wang, Z Tao, J Huang, G Li, Q Xu, SL Tait… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Assembly and tessellation of organic species at surfaces are important for the design of
advanced materials, particularly for the development of spontaneous self-assemblies of …

Substrate-mediated C–C and C–H coupling after dehalogenation

H Kong, S Yang, H Gao, A Timmer, JP Hill… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Intermolecular C–C coupling after cleavage of C–X (mostly, X= Br or I) bonds has been
extensively studied for facilitating the synthesis of polymeric nanostructures. However, the …

Role of the structure and reactivity of Cu and Ag surfaces in the formation of a 2D Metal–Hexahydroxytriphenylene network

A Rochefort, L Vernisse… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We have investigated the role played by the atomic structure and reactivity of the supporting
Ag (111) and Cu (111) surfaces on the formation of 2D metal–organic networks (2D-MONs) …

Self-assembled melamine monolayer on Cu (111)

YP Lin, O Ourdjini, L Giovanelli, S Clair… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The self-assembled structure of melamine (1, 3, 5-triazine-2, 4, 6-triamine) deposited on Cu
(111) was studied under ultra-high-vacuum conditions using scanning tunneling microscopy …

Room-temperature surface-assisted reactivity of a melanin precursor: silver metal–organic coordination versus covalent dimerization on gold

F De Marchi, G Galeotti, M Simenas, EE Tornau… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability of catecholamines to undergo oxidative self-polymerization provides an attractive
route for preparation of coatings for biotechnology and biomedicine applications. However …

Room‐Temperature Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks with a Boronic Ester Linkage at the Liquid/Solid Interface

C Liu, Y Yu, W Zhang, Q Zeng… - Chemistry–A European …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
With various prospected applications in the field of nanoelectronics and catalysis, on‐
surface synthesis of single‐layer covalent organic frameworks (surface COFs) with …

Unusual deprotonated alkynyl hydrogen bonding in metal-supported hydrocarbon assembly

YQ Zhang, J Björk, P Weber, R Hellwig… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that terminal alkynyl moieties represent powerful functional groups for
driving thermally stable, on-surface supramolecular structure formation on a reactive …