Reversible achiral-to-chiral switching of single Mn-phthalocyanine molecules by thermal hydrogenation and inelastic electron tunneling dehydrogenation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2246-2251

  Yang, Kai ^a   Liu, Liwei ^a   Zhang, Lizhi ^a   Xiao, Wende ^a   Fei, Xiangmin ^a   Chen, Hui ^a   Du, Shixuan ^a   Ernst, Karl Heinz ^b,c   Gao, Hong Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

chirality; inelastic electron tunneling; phthalocyanine; scanning tunneling microscopy; single molecule manipulation

Indexed keywords

ADSORBATES; CHIRALITY; DEHYDROGENATION; HYDROGENATION; MIRRORS; MOLECULES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING; INTERCONVERSIONS; MOLECULAR SYMMETRY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; PHTHALOCYANINE; PHTHALOCYANINE MOLECULES; SINGLE-MOLECULE MANIPULATIONS; THERMAL HYDROGENATION;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 84896989558     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405490h     Document Type: Article

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