Insight into organometallic intermediate and its evolution to covalent bonding in surface-confined ullmann polymerization

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 8190-8198

  Di Giovannantonio, Marco ^a   El Garah, Mohamed ^b   Lipton Duffin, Josh ^b   Meunier, Vincent ^c   Cardenas, Luis ^b   Fagot Revurat, Yannick ^d   Cossaro, Albano ^e   Verdini, Alberto ^e   Perepichka, Dmitrii F ^f   Rosei, Federico ^b,f   Contini, Giorgio ^a,g  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; fast X ray photoelectron spectroscopy (fast XPS); near edge X ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS); poly(para phenylene) (PPP); scanning tunneling microscopy (STM); surface polymerization; Ullmann coupling

Indexed keywords

FAST X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY (FAST-XPS); FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; NEAR EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPIES; ORGANOMETALLIC INTERMEDIATES; PLANAR POLYMERIC STRUCTURES; POLY(PARA -PHENYLENE) (PPP); STRUCTURAL CONFORMATIONS; SURFACE POLYMERIZATION;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CALCULATIONS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; COPPER; LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ORGANIC POLYMERS; ORGANOMETALLICS; PHOTOELECTRONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84884963810     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4035684     Document Type: Article

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