title: Mounting freestanding molecular functions onto surfaces: the platform approach.
abstract: A modular system has been developed to mount molecules upright onto metal surfaces in a well controlled geometry. The approach is based on a reactive platform (triazatriangulenium salt) with an electrophilic center. Functional molecules are attached via C-C bond formation. The distance from the surface can be varied by a spacer, and the distance of the functional units from each other by the size of the platform. Self-assembly of the parent triazaangulenium salt as well as the functionalized platforms on Au(111) surfaces results in stable, hexagonally ordered adlayers.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: Belinda
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authors.lastname: Baisch
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authors.lastname: Jung
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