On-surface reactions of aryl chloride and porphyrin macrocycles via merging two reactive sites into a single precursor

Abstract

The reaction of aryl chloride and porphyrin macrocycles, which are merged into a single precursor, has been achieved on Cu(111). Scanning tunneling microscopy analysis of the oligomer products showed that the adjacent porphyrin moieties linked mainly by the phenyl group with the porphyrin macrocycle.