Issue 41, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Orbital-selective single molecule reactions on a metal surface studied using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

Satoshi Katano,*ab   Yousoo Kim,b   Michael Trenaryc  and  Maki Kawaid  

* Corresponding authors

a Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
E-mail: skatano@riec.tohoku.ac.jp

b RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

c Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7061, USA
E-mail: mtrenary@uic.edu

d Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8651, Japan

Abstract

The injection of tunneling electrons from the scanning tunneling microscope tip into the molecule induces the single molecule reactions of acetonitrile adsorbed on Pt(111). The voltage dependence indicated that the resonant tunneling of electrons into the antibonding molecular orbitals gives rise to the desorption and the decomposition of acetonitrile.

Graphical abstract: Orbital-selective single molecule reactions on a metal surface studied using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC40949J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Feb 2013
Accepted
30 Mar 2013
First published
03 Apr 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 4679-4681

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Orbital-selective single molecule reactions on a metal surface studied using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

S. Katano, Y. Kim, M. Trenary and M. Kawai, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 4679 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC40949J

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