Self-assembly of periodic bicomponent wires and ribbons
Self-assembly of periodic bicomponent wires and ribbons
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200604083
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Fasel, Roman
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作者:
Canas-Ventura, Marta E.;Xiao, Wende;Fasel, Roman
The success of modern supramolecular chemistry is largely based on the enhanced stability and enlarged number of distinct heteromolecular species generated from relatively weak, noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding and metal–ligand interactions.[1] In recent years, the transfer and adaptation of the corresponding concepts to the formation of two-dimensional (2D) supramolecular structures on surfaces has been intensively explored.[2] A number of studies on the adsorption of binary molecular mixtures on well-characterized single-crystal surfaces have been performed.[3] In a few cases, the successful formation of regular heteromolecular species through hydrogen-bonding interactions has been reported.[4] The controlled organization of surface-supported supramolecular nanosystems over large length scales, however, has not been achieved so far. Ordered arrays of supramolecular wires are among the most desirable artificially structured nanosystems, because of their potential as elemental building blocks in future device applications. The growth of one-dimensional (1D) adsorbed supramolecular structures has been achieved, albeit with chain lengths restricted to the size of atomic terraces.[5] Longrange ordered 1D supramolecular structures require a template surface where steps induce order instead of destroying it. The fabrication of a regular superlattice of specific 1D surface-supported supramolecular wires based upon hydrogen-bonding interactions thus relies on a rational choice of both 1) the complementary building blocks for 1D multitopic hydrogen-bonding interactions, and 2) an appropriate template surface to guide the long-range growth of the supramolecular structures.Herein we present ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) investigations at 40 K (unless otherwise stated) of bimolecular wires and ribbons that form along the equidistant and parallel steps of an Au vicinal surface. Internal as well as long-range order of the binary wires and ribbons are reported. We use molecules exhibiting complementary end-group functionalities designed to form three hydrogen bonds. Deposition of both molecular species on Au (11, 12, 12) is shown to promote the anticipated formation of three hydrogen bonds per heteromolecular pair, in contrast to the two hydrogen bonds observed for singlecomponent deposits. Depending on coverage, the bicomponent system gives rise to a regular superlattice of 1D heteromolecular wires consisting of one or two molecular rows, as well as 2D supramolecular ribbons. The chosen molecular species are 1, 4-bis-(2, 4-diamino-1, 3, 5,-triazine)-benzene (BDATB; Figure1a) and 3, 4, 9, 10-perylenetetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI; Figure 1 d). PTCDI exhibits a-CO-NH-CO-(imide) sequence on the two opposite sides with a NH hydrogen-bond donor (D) and two CO hydrogen-bond acceptors (A), thus giving rise to the well-known ADA sequence.[1f, 6] BDATB was synthesized (see the Supporting Information) to provide interaction selectivity by means of complementary end-group functionalities (NH-N-NH) on the opposite sides of the molecules, which correspond to a DAD hydrogen-bonding sequence. The high suitability of the Au (11, 12, 12) surface as a template for the growth of long-range-ordered molecular structures is derived from its large extended double periodicity: 5.8-nmwide Au (111) terraces separated by monoatomic steps as well as periodic truncated “V”-shape discommensuration lines which indicate the border between face-centered cubic (fcc) and hexagonal close-packed (hcp) stacking domains (see the Supporting Information).[7] The low reactivity of Au (111) is …