Reversible cis-trans isomerization of a single azobenzene molecule

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 603-606

  Henzl, Jörg ^b   Mehlhorn, Michael ^b   Gawronski, Heiko ^b   Rieder, Karl Heinz ^b   Morgenstern, Karina ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Isomerization; Scanning probe microscopy; Single molecule studies; Surface chemistry

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES; TUNNELING;

ELECTRON TUNNELING; ISOMERIZATION; METAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

BENZENE;

AZO COMPOUND; AZOBENZENE; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AZO COMPOUNDS; GOLD; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PARTICLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 31044456106     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200502229     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. a) T. Ikeda, O. Tsutsumi, Science 1995, 268, 1873 - 1875;
2. b) N. Tamai, H. Miyasaka, Chem. Rev. 2000, 100, 1875 - 1890.
3. a) H. Asanuma, T. Takarada, T. Yoshida, D. Tamaru, X. Liang, M. Komiyama, Angew. Chem. 2001, 113, 2743 - 2745;
4. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 2671 - 2673, ;
5. b) H. Asanuma, T. Itoa, T. Yoshida, D. Tamaru, X. Liang, M. Komiyama, Angew. Chem. 1999, 111, 2547 - 2549;
6. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1999, 38, 2393 - 2395.
7. a) J. K. Gimzewski, C. Joachim, Science 1999, 283, 1683 - 1688;
8. b) Z. J. Donhauser, B. A. Mantooth, K. F. Kelly, L. A. Bumm, J. D. Monnell, J. J. Stapleton, D. W. Price, Jr., A. M. Rawlett, D. L. Allara, J. M. Tour, P. S. Weiss, Science 2001, 292, 2303 - 2307;
9. c) A. J. Heinrich, C. P. Lutz, J. A. Gupta, D. M. Eigler, Science 2002, 298, 1381 - 1387.
10. a) R. M. Dickson, A. B. Cubitt, R. Y. Tsien, W. E. Moerner, Nature 1997, 388, 355 - 358;
11. b) M. Irie, T. Fukaminato, T. Sasaki, N. Tamai, T. Kawai, Nature 2002, 420, 759 - 760;
12. c) T. Fukaminato, T. Sasaki, T. Kawai, N. Tamai, M. Irie, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 14 843 - 14 849;
13. d) S. Habuchi, R. Ando, P. Dedecker, W. Verheijen, H. Mizumo, A. Miyawaki, J. Hofkens, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2005, 102, 9511 - 9516.
14. C. Joachim, J. K. Gimzewski, A. Aviram, Nature 2000, 408, 541 - 548.
15. C. Zhang, M.-H. Du, H.-P. Cheng, X.-G. Zhang, A. E. Roitberg, J. L. Krause, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2004, 92, 158 301.
16. J. Nieminen, E. Niemi, V. Simic-Milosevic, K. Morgenstern, Phys. Rev. B 2005, 72, 195421.
17. a) W. Ho, J. Chem. Phys. 2002, 117, 11 033 - 11 061;
18. b) T. Komeda, Y. Kim, M. Kawai, B. N. J. Persson, H. Ueba, Science 2002, 295, 2055 - 2058.
19. J. I. Pascual, N. Lorente, Z. Song, H. Conrad, H.-P. Rust, Nature 2003, 423, 525 - 528.
20. S.-W. Hla, L. Bartels, G. Meyer, K. H. Rieder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000, 85, 2777 - 2780.
21. K. Morgenstern, K. H. Rieder, Chem. Phys. Lett. 2002, 358, 250 - 256.
22. F. W. Schulze, H. J. Petrick, H. K. Cammenga, H. Klinge, Z. Phys. Chem. Neue Fol. 1977, 107, 1 - 4743.
23. A. Miuara, S. De Feyter, M. M. S. Abdel-Mottaleb, A. Gequiere, P. C. M. Grim, G. Moessner, M. Sieffert, M. Klapper, K. Müllen, F. C. De Schryver, Langmuir 2003, 19, 6474 - 6482.
24. E. R. Talaty, J. C. Fargo, Chem. Commun. 1967, 2, 65 - 66.
25. P. Cattaneo, M. Persico, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 1999, 1, 4739 - 4743.
26. R. S. H. Liu, D. T. Browne, Acc. Chem. Res. 1986, 19, 42 - 48.
27. W. Fuß, C. Kosmidis, W. E. Schmid, S. A. Truslin, Angew. Chem. 2004, 116, 4273 - 4277;
28. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 4178 - 4182.
29. a) D. R. Armstrong, J. Clarkson, W. E. Smith, J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 17 825 - 17 831;
30. b) N. Biswas, S. Umapathy, J. Phys. Chem. A 1997, 101, 5555 - 5566.
31. M. A. Thomson, ArgusLab 4.0, Planaria Software, LCC, Seattle, WA, www.arguslab.com.