Kocic, Nemanja and Liu, Xunshan and Chen, Songjie and Decurtins, Silvio and Krejci, Ondrej and Jelinek, Pavel and Repp, Jascha and Liu, Shi-Xia (2016) Control of Reactivity and Regioselectivity for On-Surface Dehydrogenative Aryl-Aryl Bond Formation. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 138 (17). pp. 5585-5593. ISSN 0002-7863,
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Regioselectivity is of fundamental importance in chemical synthesis. Although many concepts for site-selective reactions are well established for solution chemistry, it is not a priori clear whether they can easily be transferred to reactions taking place on a metal surface. A metal will fix the chemical potential of the electrons and perturb the electronic states of the reactants because of hybridization. Additionally, techniques to characterize chemical reactions in solution are generally not applicable to on-surface reactions. Only recent developments in resolving chemical structures by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) paved the way for identifying individual reaction products on surfaces. Here we exploit a combined STM/AFM technique to demonstrate the on-surface formation of complex molecular architectures built up from a heteroaromatic precursor, tetracyclic pyrazino[2,3-f][4,7]phenanthroline (pap) molecule. Selective intermolecular aryl-aryl coupling via dehydrogenative C-H activation occurs on Au(111) upon thermal annealing under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions. A full atomistic description of the different reaction products based on an unambiguous discrimination between pyrazine and pyridine moieties is presented. Our work not only elucidates that ortho-hydrogen atoms of the pyrazine rings are preferentially activated over their pyridine equivalents, but also sheds new light onto the participation of substrate atoms in metal-organic coordination bonding during covalent C-C bond formation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ATOMIC-FORCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON HETEROJUNCTIONS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; C-H ACTIVATION; CHEMICAL-STRUCTURE; COUPLING REACTIONS; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES; REDOX PROPERTIES; SCHOLL REACTION; BAND-GAP; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Giessibl > Group Jascha Repp |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2019 10:17 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2019 10:17 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/2947 |
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