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Discrete dihedral-angle modulation in porphyrin wheels adsorbed on Cu(1 0 0) observed by scanning tunneling microscopy |
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| Authors: | Akihiko Takagi Xiobin Peng Takuya Matsumoto Atsuhiro Osuka Tomoji Kawai |
| Institution: | a Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi, 332-0012 Saitama, Japan b The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, 567-0047 Osaka, Japan c Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, 606-8502 Kyoto, Japan |
| Abstract: | Conformations of two dodecameric porphyrin wheels adsorbed on a Cu(1 0 0) were probed by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Whereas a wheel consisting of six meso-meso linked diporphyrins was detected as uniform ring structure, several different images with three discrete molecular heights were detected for a wheel consisting of six meso-meso, β-β,β-β triply-linked planar diporphyrins. These results indicate that the former has a conformation similar to that in a free space, while the latter has various conformations with respect to orientation of planar diporphyrin units toward the metal surface. Several discrete STM images of the latter have been interpreted in terms of possible eight conformations, which vary as to relative orientation of neighboring diporphyrin units. |
| Keywords: | Scanning tunneling microscopy Adsorption kinetics Macromolecules Porphyrin derivatives Molecular conformation Adsorption |
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