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Chemical Communications

Odd–even effect and metal induced structural convergence in self-assembled monolayers of bipyridine derivatives†

Yoshihiro Kikkawa,*a   Emiko Koyama,*a   Seiji Tsuzuki,b   Kyoko Fujiwara,a   Koji Miyake,c   Hideo Tokuhisaa  and  Masatoshi Kanesatoa  

* Corresponding authors

a Nanoarchitectonics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 4, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
E-mail: y.kikkawa@aist.go.jp
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b Research Institute for Computational Sciences, AIST, Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

c Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, AIST, 1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Abstract

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) observations reveal that bipyridine derivatives which exhibit various two-dimensional structures due to the odd–even chain length effect are converged into a lamellar structure upon metal coordination.

Graphical abstract: Odd–even effect and metal induced structural convergence in self-assembled monolayers of bipyridine derivatives

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B616601F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Nov 2006
Accepted
05 Jan 2007
First published
19 Jan 2007

Chem. Commun., 2007, 1343-1345

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Odd–even effect and metal induced structural convergence in self-assembled monolayers of bipyridine derivatives

Y. Kikkawa, E. Koyama, S. Tsuzuki, K. Fujiwara, K. Miyake, H. Tokuhisa and M. Kanesato, Chem. Commun., 2007, 1343 DOI: 10.1039/B616601F

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