Chemically controlled conductivity: torsion-angle dependence in a single-molecule biphenyldithiol junction

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 48, Issue 47, 2009, Pages 8886-8890

  Vonlanthen, David ^b   Mishchenko, Artem ^a   Elbing, Mark ^c,d   Neuburger, Markus ^b   Wandlowski, Thomas ^a   Mayor, Marcel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Elastogran GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biphenyldithiols; Conductance; Metathesis; Molecular electronics; Structure property relationships

Indexed keywords

ANGLE DEPENDENCE; BIPHENYLDITHIOLS; CONDUCTANCE; METATHESIS; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; PHENYL RINGS; SINGLE MOLECULE CONDUCTANCE; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE CONDUCTIVITY; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; TORSION ANGLE;

MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

TORSIONAL STRESS;

EID: 70449116077     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200903946     Document Type: Article

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