Steering On-Surface Reactions by Kinetic and Thermodynamic Strategies

T Wang, Q Fan, J Zhu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis has emerged as a powerful tool to fabricate various functional low-
dimensional nanostructures with atomic precision, thus becoming a promising platform for …

Surface-assisted fabrication of low-dimensional carbon-based nanoarchitectures

D Han, J Zhu - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
On-surface synthesis, as an alternative to traditional in-solution synthesis, has become an
emerging research field and attracted extensive attention over the past decade due to its …

Tuning the diradical character of pentacene derivatives via non-benzenoid coupling motifs

T Wang, P Angulo-Portugal… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of functional organic molecules requires structures of increasing size and
complexity, which are typically obtained by the covalent coupling of smaller building blocks …

Chemisorption-induced formation of biphenylene dimer on Ag (111)

Z Zeng, D Guo, T Wang, Q Chen, A Matěj… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report an example that demonstrates the clear interdependence between surface-
supported reactions and molecular-adsorption configurations. Two biphenyl-based …

Visualizing the Hierarchical Evolution of Aryl–Metal Bonding in Organometallic Nanostructures on Ag (111)

Y Gao, Z Zhang, Z Yi, C Zhang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-surface dehalogenative coupling reactions are promising for constructing nanostructures
with diverse properties and functionalities. Extensive efforts have been devoted to single aryl …

Deciphering the Mechanism of On-Surface Dehydrogenative C–C Coupling Reactions

Q Zhong, J Jung, D Kohrs, LA Kaczmarek… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis has proven to be a powerful approach for fabricating various low-
dimensional covalent nanostructures with atomic precision that could be challenging for …

Substrate-directed chiral selectivity of molecular self-assembled and covalent structures

Z Zeng, J Huang, D Han, X Li, Q Xu, T Wang, J Zhu - Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Controlling the synthesis of low-dimensional chiral nanostructures on solid surfaces has
attracted tremendous interest in recent years. Herein, we report a study showing substrate …

Separation of Halogen Atoms by Sodium from Dehalogenative Reactions on a Au (111) Surface

Z Zhang, Y Gao, Z Yi, C Zhang, W Xu - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
On-surface dehalogenative reactions have been promising in the construction of
nanostructures with diverse morphologies and intriguing electronic properties, while …

Increased Selectivity in Photolytic Activation of Nanoassemblies Compared to Thermal Activation in On-Surface Ullmann Coupling

C Schunke, P Schweer, E Engelage, D Austin… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis is a powerful method that has emerged recently to fabricate a large
variety of atomically precise nanomaterials on surfaces based on polymerization. It is very …

Gas-phase preparation of the dibenzo [e, l] pyrene (C 24 H 14) butterfly molecule via a phenyl radical-mediated ring annulation

SJ Goettl, AM Turner, BJ Sun, AHH Chang… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
A high temperature phenyl-mediated addition–cyclization–dehydrogenation mechanism to
form peri-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) derivatives—illustrated through the …