Supramolecular structures and chirality in dithiocarbamate self-assembled monolayers on Au(111)

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 813-816

  Morf, Peter ^a   Ballav, Nirmalya ^a   Putero, Magali ^b   Von Wrochem, Florian ^c   Wessels, Jurina M ^c   Jung, Thomas A ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Sony Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Interfaces; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

AU (111) SUBSTRATES; AU(1 1 1 ); DECANETHIOL; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE; DITHIOCARBAMATES; GOLD SUBSTRATES; INTERFACES; SULFUR ATOMS; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 77949385124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz900435w     Document Type: Article

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