Packing of isophthalate tetracarboxylic acids on Au(111): rows and disordered herringbone structures

Izabela Cebula; Emily F. Smith; Maria Del Carmen Gimenez-Lopez; Sihai Yang; Martin Schröder; Neil R. Champness; Peter H. Beton

doi:10.1021/jp402333m

Packing of isophthalate tetracarboxylic acids on Au(111): rows and disordered herringbone structures

Izabela Cebula, Emily F. Smith, Maria Del Carmen Gimenez-Lopez, Sihai Yang, Martin Schröder, Neil R. Champness, Peter H. Beton

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Abstract

Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has been used to investigate the formation of hydrogen-bonded structures of the isophthalate tetracarboxylic acids, biphenyl-3,3',5,5'-tetracarboxylic acid (BPTC), terphenyl-3,3″,5,5″-tetracarboxylic acid (TPTC), and quarterphenyl-3,3‴,5,5‴-tetracarboxylic acid (QPTC), via deposition from solution onto Au(111). STM data reveal that ordered structures can be formed from an aqueous solution leading to the formation of rows for the shortest acid BPTC, while the longer molecules TPTC and QPTC adopt a herringbone-like structure with significant degrees of disorder. The influence of solvent and substrate on the molecular ordering is discussed, and density functional theory is used to identify molecular models for these new phases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18381-18385
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Volume	117
Issue number	36
Early online date	27 Aug 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/jp402333m
Publication status	Published - 12 Sept 2013

Keywords

scanning tunnelling microscopy
isophthalate tetracarboxylic acids
herringbone-like structure
molecular models

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