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Inside Cover: Cooperation of N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes on a Gold Surface (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47/2020)
Author(s) -
Amirjalayer Saeed,
Bakker Anne,
Freitag Matthias,
Glorius Frank,
Fuchs Harald
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.202012187
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , nanotechnology , nanoscopic scale , int , chemistry , colloidal gold , materials science , nanoparticle , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , operating system
Molecular zippers based on N‐heterocyclic carbenes are reported by S. Amirjalayer and co‐workers in their Research Article on page 21230. The structure of a gold surface is modified with atomic precision by the cooperative interplay of molecular ballbots formed in situ by the carbenes at the gold surface. By elucidating the elementary steps and confirming the swarm‐like behavior of these nanoscale tools, the possibility of developing well‐defined nanostructured interfaces at room temperature is demonstrated.