title: Demetalation of a single organometallic complex.
abstract: Single lead-phthalocyanine molecules adsorbed to ultrathin lead islands on Ag(111) are demetalized by transferring the lead atom of the inner macrocycle to the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. Reactants and products are discriminated by their images and spectroscopic fingerprints.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany. sperl@physik.uni-kiel.de
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sperl
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kröger
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Berndt