Issue 38, 2018
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Nanoscale

Probing Lewis acid–base interactions in single-molecule junctions†

Xunshan Liu,‡a   Xiaohui Li,‡b   Sara Sangtarash, ORCID logo ‡*c   Hatef Sadeghi,c   Silvio Decurtins,a   Robert Häner, ORCID logo a   Wenjing Hong, ORCID logo *b   Colin J. Lambert ORCID logo *c  and  Shi-Xia Liu ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
E-mail: liu@dcb.unibe.ch

b State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, NEL, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
E-mail: whong@xmu.edu.cn

c Quantum Technology Centre, Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
E-mail: c.lambert@lancaster.ac.uk, s.sangtarash@lancaster.ac.uk

Abstract

A novel strategy to regulate the tunneling mechanism for charge transport through an organoborane wire via Lewis acid–base interactions has been developed. A change from LUMO- to HOMO-dominated charge transport upon the addition of the fluoride is verified both experimentally and theoretically.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NR06562D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Aug 2018
Accepted
17 Sep 2018
First published
18 Sep 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale, 2018,10, 18131-18134

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Probing Lewis acid–base interactions in single-molecule junctions

X. Liu, X. Li, S. Sangtarash, H. Sadeghi, S. Decurtins, R. Häner, W. Hong, C. J. Lambert and S. Liu, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 18131 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR06562D

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