Issue 34, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Organometallic molecular wires as versatile modules for energy-level alignment of the metal–molecule–metal junction†

Kaho Sugimoto,a   Yuya Tanaka,*a   Shintaro Fujii,b   Tomofumi Tada,*c   Manabu Kiguchi*b  and  Munetaka Akita*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1-27, 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
E-mail: ytanaka@res.titech.ac.jp, makita@res.titech.ac.jp

b Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 W4-10, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
E-mail: kiguti@chem.titech.ac.jp

c Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
E-mail: tada.t.ae@m.titech.ac.jp

Abstract

The organometallic Ru molecular wires 1–3 Ru(PR3)4(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CC5H5N)2 [(PR3)4 = (dppe)2 (1), [P(OMe3)]4 (2), and (dmpe)2 (3)] show significantly higher conductance compared to their organic counterpart, 1,4-dipyridyl butadiyne (4). CV and UV-Vis measurements and DFT calculations suggest that the high-lying HOMOs of the Ru wires are the key factor for the high conductance.

Graphical abstract: Organometallic molecular wires as versatile modules for energy-level alignment of the metal–molecule–metal junction

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC01705C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Feb 2016
Accepted
10 Mar 2016
First published
10 Mar 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 5796-5799

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Organometallic molecular wires as versatile modules for energy-level alignment of the metal–molecule–metal junction

K. Sugimoto, Y. Tanaka, S. Fujii, T. Tada, M. Kiguchi and M. Akita, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 5796 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01705C

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