title: Organometallic molecular wires as versatile modules for energy-level alignment of the metal-molecule-metal junction.
abstract: The organometallic Ru molecular wires 1-3 Ru(PR3)4(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CC5H5N)2 [(PR3)4 = (dppe)2 (1), [P(OMe3)]4 (2), and (dmpe)2 (3)] show significantly higher conductance compared to their organic counterpart, 1,4-dipyridyl butadiyne (4). CV and UV-Vis measurements and DFT calculations suggest that the high-lying HOMOs of the Ru wires are the key factor for the high conductance.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1-27, 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan. ytanaka@res.titech.ac.jp makita@res.titech.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Kaho
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: Yuya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Shintaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Tomofumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tada
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kiguchi
authors.forename: Munetaka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akita