分子陀螺的设计、合成与组装

近来,科学家设计和合成了系列分子水平的陀螺。类似于儿童的玩具陀螺仪,这种分子陀螺由一个转子、一个定子框架和连接定子和转子的轴组成。定子框架通过自身的刚性结构为中心转子的转动提供足够的内在自由度,得以对内部的转子实施保护。并使得分子陀螺成为一个理想的分子转子。当转子上有偶极距时,则可能在外来电、磁、光的刺激下进行定向转动,成为分子马达。化学家们通过X射线晶体衍射技术、动态核磁技术、理论计算化学、热力学分析等方法表征了分子陀螺的各种特征,并积极探索其潜在的应用价值。本文着重介绍分子陀螺,以及超分子陀螺仪的发展历史以及研究进展。     

从分子构造到分子构型和分子构象（上）

分子构造(constitution)是指分子中原子相互联结的方式和次序,过去长期以来称为分子结构((structure),根据国际纯粹和应用化学联合会的建议,改为“构造”。“结构”一词应用在广泛的范围,例如物质结构、原子的电子结构等等。     

从分子构造到分子构型和分子构象（下）

范特霍夫和列贝尔分别各自提出碳原子的四个价键指向一个正四面体的四个顶点概念确立后,1885年德国化学家拜尔(Baeyer,Adolphvon 1835-1917)发表价键的张力学说。他根据碳原子四个价键的正四面体模型,任何两个价键之间的正常角度应当是109o28',如图I所示。     

卟啉超分子化合物在分子器件中的应用

分子电子器件已成为近年来的一个研究热点，卟啉类化合物因为光敏性好、性能稳定、易于修饰等优点成为分子器件研究的理想模型化合物。本文着重介绍了它在分子器件中的最新应用进展。     

分子调控的概念及其意义

在分子识别的基础之上提出了分子调控的新概念，指出分子调控是外界因素对分子某些性质的指令性干预，是超分子体系所持有的功能，通过这种调控作用，可以有意识、有目的地控制分子的行为，并列举若干实例加以说明。     

药物头孢氨苄分子模板聚合物水中结合性质的研究

采用分子模板技术合成了以头孢氨苄为模板分子以三氟甲基丙烯酸和４－乙烯基吡啶同时为功能单体的分子模板聚合物。将得到的棒状聚合物研磨过筛后,运用平衡结合实验研究了头孢氨苄分子模板聚合物的结合性质,Ｓｃａｔｃｈａｒｄ分析表明,在所研究的浓度范围内,在聚合物中形成了两类不同的结合位点。头孢氨苄分子模板聚合物与其化学组成相同的非模板聚合物相比,有很高的结合容量。底物选择性实验表明,与其它结构相似的药物相比,     

发光性受体的分子设计与分子识别

介绍了发光受体的几种典型分子识别模型。从分子识别与超分子化学的角度综述了它们在分子离子识别中的应用。对近几年发展较快的分子印迹技术及其应用进行了综述。引用文献71篇。     

分子识别在分析化学中的应用

本文概述了分子模板理论的产生和发展，总结了分子模板技术在分析化学领域中的应用和发展趋势，同时对分子印渍技术的理论进行概述，并指出分子印渍技术在分析化学领域中的应用和发展情况，阐述了分子模板和分子印渍技在分子识别分析方面的应用前景，其将为各种物质的超微量分析提供更加讯捷，准确，方便的分析方法。     

从分子构造到分子构型和分子构象（中）

我们从(上)文看到,化学家们最初认为物质的性质只决定于物质的分子组成,后来逐渐认识到物质的性质除决定于物质的分子组成外,还决定于分子构造.     

基于C=O…HN分子间氢键的超分子液晶研究进展

基于C=O…HN的分子间氢键能够自组装形成具有精确分子排列和很好稳定性的有序结构,在设计构造液晶功能材料方面具有重要的不可替代的地位.分子形状是设计小分子热致液晶的一个主要考虑因素,它对液晶态的结构有至关重要的影响.以分子形状与液晶态相互关系为主线,重点介绍了目前文献报道的基于C=O…HN分子间氢键的盘状和楔形分子形成液晶的研究进展,以期为新型液晶材料的分子设计提供一些借鉴.     

STM studies on adsorbed liquid crystal on HOPG

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Large Enhancement of the Single-Molecular Conductance of a Molecular Wire through a Radical Substituent

The single-molecular conductance between two π-conjugated wires with and without a radical substituent has been compared. Specifically, methyl- and iminonitroxide-substituted 4-(biphenyl-4-yl)pyridine wires bound onto a porphyrin template were subjected to scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) apparent-height measurement at the interface between highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and octan-1-oic acid. Statistical analysis of the STM images revealed that the radical-substituted wire has 3.2±1.7-fold higher conductance than the methyl-substituted reference. Although density functional theory (DFT) calculation suggests that only 17 % of the SOMO is distributed on the wire moiety, the effect was significant. This study presents the potential of radical substituents to achieve high conductivity in molecular wires.     

A core-shell strategy for constructing a single-molecule junction

Understanding the effects of intermolecular interactions on the charge-transport properties of metal/molecule/metal junctions is an important step towards using individual molecules as building blocks for electronic devices. This work reports a systematic electron-transport investigation on a series of "core-shell"-structured oligo(phenylene ethynylene) (Gn-OPE) molecular wires. By using dendrimers of different generations as insulating "shells", the intermolecular π-π interactions between the OPE "cores" can be precisely controlled in single-component monolayers. Three techniques are used to evaluate the electron-transport properties of the Au/Gn-OPE/Au molecular junctions, including crossed-wire junction, scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), and scanning tunneling microscope (STM) break-junction techniques. The STM break-junction measurement reveals that the electron-transport pathways are strongly affected by the size of the side groups. When the side groups are small, electron transport could occur through three pathways, including through single-molecule junctions, double-molecule junctions, and molecular bridges between adjacent molecules formed by aromatic π-π coupling. The dendrimer shells effectively prohibit the π-π coupling effect, but at the same time, very large dendrimer side groups may hinder the formation of Au-S bonds. A first-generation dendrimer acts as an optimal shell that only allows electron transport through the single-molecule junction pathway, and forbids the other undesired pathways. It is demonstrated that the dendrimer-based core-shell strategy allows the single-molecule conductance to be probed in a homogenous monolayer without the influence of intermolecular π-π interactions.     

Metal-molecule-metal junctions in Langmuir-Blodgett films using a new linker: trimethylsilane

Herein trimethylsilane (TMS) is demonstrated to be an efficient binding group suitable for construction of metal-molecule-metal (M-mol-M') junctions, in which one of the metal contacts is an atomically flat gold surface and the other a scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) tip. The molecular component of the M-mol-M' devices is an oligomeric phenylene ethynylene (OPE) derivative Me(3)Si C≡C{C(6)H(4)C≡C}(2)C(6)H(4)NH(2), featuring both Me(3)SiC≡C and NH(2) metal contacting groups. This compound can be assembled into Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films on Au--substrates by surface binding through the amine groups. Alternatively, low coverage (sub-monolayer) films are formed by adsorption from solution. In the case of condensed monolayers top electrical contacts are formed to STM tips through the TMS end group. In low coverage films, single molecular bridges can be formed between the gold surface and a gold STM tip. The similarity in the I-V response of a one-layer LB film and the single molecule conductance experiments reveals several points of critical importance to the design of molecular components for use in the construction of M-mol-M' junctions. Firstly, the presence of neighbouring π systems does not have a significant effect on the conductance of the M-mol-M' junction. Secondly, in the STM configuration, intermolecular electron hopping does not significantly enhance the junction transport characteristics. Thirdly, the symmetric behaviour of the I-V curves obtained, despite the different metal-molecule contacts, indicates that the molecule is simply an amphiphilic electron-donating wire and not a molecular diode with strong rectifying characteristics. Finally, the conductance values obtained from the amine/TMS-contacted OPE described here are of the same order of magnitude as thiol anchored OPEs, making them attractive alternatives to the more conventionally used thiol-contacting chemistry for OPE molecular wires.     

Orientation‐Controlled Single‐Molecule Junctions

The conductivity of a single aromatic ring, perpendicular to its plane, is determined using a new strategy under ambient conditions and at room temperature by a combination of molecular assembly, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging, and STM break junction (STM‐BJ) techniques. The construction of such molecular junctions exploits the formation of highly ordered structures of flat‐oriented mesitylene molecules on Au(111) to enable direct tip/π contacts, a result that is not possible by conventional methods. The measured conductance of Au/π/Au junction is about 0.1 G_o , two orders of magnitude higher than the conductance of phenyl rings connected to the electrodes by standard anchoring groups. Our experiments suggest that long‐range ordered structures, which hold the aromatic ring in place and parallel to the surface, are essential to increase probability of the formation of orientation‐controlled molecular junctions.     

Structural Transformation of Surface-Confined Porphyrin Networks by Addition of Co Atoms

The self-assembly of a nickel-porphyrin derivative (Ni-DPPyP) containing two pyridyl coordinating sites and two pentyl chains at trans meso positions was studied with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and low energy electron diffraction (LEED) on Au(111). Deposition of Ni-DPPyP onto Au(111) gave rise to a close-packed network for coverages smaller or equal to one monolayer as revealed by STM and LEED. The molecular arrangement of this two-dimensional network is stabilized via hydrogen bonds formed between the pyridyl's nitrogen and hydrogen atoms from the pyrrole groups of neighboring molecules. Subsequent deposition of cobalt atoms onto the close-packed network and post-deposition annealing at 423 K led to the formation of a Co-coordinated hexagonal porous network. As confirmed by XPS measurements, the porous network is stabilized by metal-ligand interactions between one cobalt atom and three pyridyl ligands, each pyridyl ligand coming from a different Ni-DPPyP molecule.     

Influence of the Number of Anchoring Groups on the Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Benzene‐, Anthracene‐ and Pentacene‐Based Molecular Devices

One of the central issues of molecular electronics (ME) is the study of the molecule–metal electrode contacts, and their implications for the conductivity, charge‐transport mechanism, and mechanical stability. In fact, stochastic on/off switching (blinking) reported in STM experiments is a major problem of single‐molecule devices, and challenges the stability and reliability of these systems. Surprisingly, the ambiguous STM results all originate from devices that bind to the metallic electrode through a one‐atom connection. In the present work, DFT is employed to study and compare the properties of a set of simple acenes that bind to metallic electrodes with an increasing number of connections, in order to determine whether the increasing numbers of anchoring groups have a direct repercussion on the stability of these systems. The conductivities of the three polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are calculated, as well as their transmission spectra and current profiles. The thermal and mechanical stability of these systems is studied by pulling and pushing the metal–molecule connection. The results show that molecules with more than one connection per electrode exhibit greater electrical efficiency and current stability.     

Supramolecular Cl⋅⋅⋅H and O⋅⋅⋅H Interactions in Self‐Assembled 1,5‐Dichloroanthraquinone Layers on Au(111)

The role of halogen bonds in self‐assembled networks for systems with Br and I ligands has recently been studied with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), which provides physical insight at the atomic scale. Here, we study the supramolecular interactions of 1,5‐dichloroanthraquinone molecules on Au(111), including Cl ligands, by using STM. Two different molecular structures of chevron and square networks are observed, and their molecular models are proposed. Both molecular structures are stabilized by intermolecular Cl???H and O???H hydrogen bonds with marginal contributions from Cl‐related halogen bonds, as revealed by density functional theory calculations. Our study shows that, in contrast to Br‐ and I‐related halogen bonds, Cl‐related halogen bonds weakly contribute to the molecular structure due to a modest positive potential (σ hole) of the Cl ligands.     

Seeding Molecular Rotators on a Passivated Silicon Surface

Thermally activated rotation of single molecules adsorbed on a silicon‐based surface between 77 and 150 K has been successfully achieved. This remarkable phenomenon relies on a nanoporous supramolecular network, which acts as a template to seed periodic molecule rotors on the surface. Thermal activation of rotation has been demonstrated by STM experiments and confirmed by theoretical calculations.     

电化学门控调节具有平行路径的单分子电路中电子传输

电化学门控已成为一种可行且高效调节单分子电导的方法.在本研究中,我们证实了具有两个平行苯环的单分子电路中电子传输可以通过电化学门控控制.首先,我们利用STM-BJ技术以金为电极构筑了具有两条平行路径的单分子结.与单条路径的单分子结相比,两条路径的分子结由于具有增强性量子干涉效应,具有2.82倍的电导值.进一步地,我们利...