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Chirality Change of Chloronitrobenzene on Au(111) Induced by Inelastic Electron Tunneling
Author(s) -
SimicMilosevic Violeta,
Meyer Jörg,
Morgenstern Karina
Publication year - 2009
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.200805551
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , quantum tunnelling , electron , enantiomer , rotation (mathematics) , scanning tunneling microscope , chemistry , materials science , condensed matter physics , atomic physics , physics , stereochemistry , quantum mechanics , geometry , chiral symmetry breaking , mathematics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
Chirality chameleon : Inelastic electron tunneling manipulation can be used to change a single chloronitrobenzene (ClNB) molecule, randomly adsorbed on Au(111), into its desired enantiomeric form (r or l, see STM images and ball‐and‐stick representation) and to vary its rotational orientation. The different threshold voltages for chirality change (260 mV) and rotation (380 mV) allow these processes to be induced separately.