Frontier orbital control of molecular conductance and its switching

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 4093-4097

  Tsuji, Yuta ^a   Hoffmann, Roald ^a  

^a Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Baker Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

frontier orbital control; interference effects; molecular conductance; molecular switches

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ETHYLENE; SWITCHING;

FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITALS; FRONTIER ORBITALS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; SINGLE-MOLECULE; STRONG DEPENDENCES; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS;

MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

EID: 84898640635     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201311134     Document Type: Article

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