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Real‐Time Single‐Molecule Imaging of the Formation and Dynamics of Coordination Compounds
Author(s) -
Lin Nian,
Dmitriev Alexandre,
Weckesser Jens,
Barth Johannes V.,
Kern Klaus
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200290046
Subject(s) - scanning tunneling microscope , dissociation (chemistry) , molecule , chemical physics , metal , direct imaging , crystallography , coordination complex , nanotechnology , materials science , chemistry , scanning probe microscopy , optics , physics , organic chemistry
Reaction sequences under the microscope : Scanning tunneling microscopy has been used to follow the association and dissociation of the cloverleaf‐shaped complex from 1,3,5‐benzenetricarboxylic acid and Cu atoms from a metal surface one molecule at a time (see images). The lifetime of the complexes depends crucially on their local chemical enviroment.