Design of extended surface-supported chiral metal-organic arrays comprising mononuclear iron centers.
A design strategy for fabricating a surface-supported chiral metal-organic system comprising a regular arrangement of mononuclear iron centers and nanocavities is presented. By sequential deposition of 1,2,4-benzenetricarboxylic acid (tmla) molecules and iron atoms on a Cu(100) surface under ultrahigh vacuum conditions, chiral square-planar Fe(tmla)4 metal-organic complexes are generated, which order in extended homochiral arrays. Structure formation and envisioned functionality of such metal-organic architectures are discussed.
Dmitriev
Alexandre
A
Spillmann
Hannes
H
Lingenfelder
Magali
M
Lin
Nian
N
Barth
Johannes V
JV
Kern
Klaus
K
D001555:Benzene Derivatives; D003300:Copper; D007501:Iron; D016252:Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling; D014233:Tricarboxylic Acids
D001555:Benzene Derivatives; D014233:Tricarboxylic Acids; D003300:Copper; D007501:Iron