title: Dynamic assembly of porphyrin wires trapped on a highly oriented pyrolitic graphite surface.
abstract: Carefully designed porphyrin building blocks assemble through selective imidazole binding in various solvents to form linear multiporphyrin objects. From a dynamic mixture of monomers, dimers, and oligomers, linear objects were observed on a highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG) surface. On the surface, the objects' morphology clearly depended on the solvent used for deposition and was modified upon heating.
authors.affiliation: CLAC, Institut de Chimie, UMR 7177 CNRS-UDS, BP 1032, 1 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Vivien
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rauch
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Wytko
authors.forename: Mayuko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kikkawa
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanesato
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weiss