Single-molecule imaging of platinum ligand exchange reaction reveals reactivity distribution.
Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy provided information about the real-time distribution of chemical reactivity on silicon oxide supports at the solution-surface interface, at a level of detail which would be unavailable from a traditional ensemble technique or from a technique that imaged the static physical properties of the surface. Chemical reactions on the surface were found to be uncorrelated; that is, the chemical reaction of one metal complex did not influence the location of a future chemical reaction of another metal complex.
Esfandiari
N Melody
NM
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
Wang
Yong
Y
Bass
Jonathan Y
JY
Cornell
Trevor P
TP
Otte
Douglas A L
DA
Cheng
Ming H
MH
Hemminger
John C
JC
McIntire
Theresa M
TM
Mandelshtam
Vladimir A
VA
Blum
Suzanne A
SA