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Inside Cover: Single‐Molecule Study of a Plasmon‐Induced Reaction for a Strongly Chemisorbed Molecule (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 20/2020)
Author(s) -
Kazuma Emiko,
Lee Minhui,
Jung Jaehoon,
Trenary Michael,
Kim Yousoo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.202004497
Subject(s) - antibonding molecular orbital , scanning tunneling microscope , molecule , plasmon , dissociation (chemistry) , chemistry , atomic orbital , surface plasmon , photochemistry , molecular physics , materials science , crystallography , nanotechnology , physics , electron , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
The plasmon‐induced dissociation of a single O 2 molecule strongly chemisorbed on a silver surface was investigated by using a scanning tunneling microscope combined with an optical set‐up for light irradiation, as reported by Y. Kim et al. in their Research Article on page 7960. Analyses of the single‐molecule reaction and the electronic structure responsible for the reaction revealed that the hot carriers generated through the decay of the plasmon are transferred to the antibonding (π*) orbitals of O 2 , which are strongly hybridized with the metal states.