Deposition of ordered layers of tetralactam macrocycles and ether rotaxanes on pyridine-terminated self-assembled monolayers on gold

S Richter, J Poppenberg, CHH Traulsen…

Index: Richter, Sebastian; Poppenberg, Johannes; Traulsen, Christoph H.-H.; Sokolowski, Anja; Sattler, Dominik; Schalley, Christoph A.; Darlatt, Erik; Unger, Wolfgang E. S. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012 , vol. 134, # 39 p. 16289 - 16297,9

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Abstract

The deposition of tetralactam macrocycles and the corresponding benzyl ether rotaxanes on gold substrates is investigated for the first time exploiting metallo-supramolecular chemistry. Two pyridine-terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are developed that are used as well-ordered template layers. The two SAMs differ with respect to the rigidity of the terminal pyridines as shown by angle-resolved near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS ...