title: Single-molecule vibrations, conformational changes, and electronic conductivity of five-membered heterocycles.
abstract: Using an ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope (STM), we have explored the interactions of isolated five-membered heterocycles, pyrrole, thiophene, pyrrolidine, and tetrahydrothiophene, with the Cu(001) surface at 9 K. Pyrrolidine was also studied on the Ag(001) surface. Important distinctions in bonding, vibrational spectra, and vibrationally mediated negative differential resistance were observed with the aid of single-molecule inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (STM-IETS).
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Cornell Center for Materials Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gaudioso
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ho