Lischka, M., Dong, R., Wang, M. et al. (6 more authors) (2019) Competitive metal‐coordination of hexaaminotriphenylene on Cu(111) by intrinsic copper versus extrinsic nickel adatoms. Chemistry - A European Journal, 25 (8). pp. 1975-1983. ISSN 0947-6539
Abstract
The interplay between self‐assembly and surface chemistry of 2,3,6,7,10,11‐hexaminotriphenylene (HATP) on Cu(111) was complementarily studied by high‐resolution Scanning‐Tunneling‐Microscopy (STM) and X‐ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) under ultra‐high vacuum conditions. To shed light on competitive metal‐coordination, comparative experiments were carried out on pristine and nickel‐covered Cu(111). Directly after room temperature deposition of HATP onto pristine Cu(111) self‐assembled aggregates were observed by STM, while XPS indicated non‐deprotonated amino groups. Annealing up to 200 °C activated the progressive single deprotonation of all amino groups as indicated by chemical shifts of both N 1s and C 1s core levels in the XP spectra. This enabled the formation of topologically versatile π‐d conjugated coordination networks with intrinsic copper adatoms. The basic motif of these networks was a metal‐organic trimer, where three HATP molecules were coordinated by Cu3 clusters, as corroborated by accompanying Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations. Additional deposition of more reactive nickel atoms resulted in both chemical and structural changes with deprotonation and formation of bis(diimino)‐Ni bonded networks already at room temperature. Even though fused hexagonal pores were observed, extended honeycomb networks remained elusive, as tentatively explained by a restricted reversibility of these metal‐organic bonds.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Chemistry - A European Journal. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Chemistry (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2018 12:23 |
Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2021 10:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/chem.201803908 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:139553 |