Charge-assisted hydrogen bond-directed self-assembly of an amphiphilic zwitterionic quinonemonoimine at the liquid–solid interface

Yuan Fang; Phuong Nguyen; Oleksandr Ivasenko; Maria Paola Aviles; Eskedar Kebede; Mohammad S. Askari; Xavier Ottenwaelder; Ulrich Ziener; Olivier Siri; Louis A. Cuccia

doi:10.1039/C1CC14085J

Charge-assisted hydrogen bond-directed self-assembly of an amphiphilic zwitterionic quinonemonoimine at the liquid–solid interface†‡

Yuan Fang,^a Phuong Nguyen,^a Oleksandr Ivasenko,^b Maria Paola Aviles,^a Eskedar Kebede,^a Mohammad S. Askari,^a Xavier Ottenwaelder,^a Ulrich Ziener,^c Olivier Siri^d and Louis A. Cuccia*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montréal, QC, Canada H4B 1R6
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^b Division of Molecular and Nanomaterials, Department of Chemistry and INPAC—Institute of Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K. U. Leuven), Celestijnenlaan 200F bus 2404, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
E-mail: oleksandr.ivasenko@chem.kuleuven.be

^c Department of Organic Chemistry III, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
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^d CINaM, UPR 3118 CNRS, Campus de Luminy, case 913, F-13288 Marseille cedex 09, France
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Abstract

Charge-assisted hydrogen bond-directed self-assembly of a zwitterionic quinonemonoimine was investigated at the liquid/solid interface using scanning tunnelling microscopy. Factors governing morphology, chirality and multilayer formation are discussed, presenting an important foundation for understanding the properties of a large family of related molecules with interesting potential in supramolecular design.

This article is part of the themed collection: Molecule-based surface chemistry

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Charge-assisted hydrogen bond-directed self-assembly of an amphiphilic zwitterionic quinonemonoimine at the liquid–solid interface†‡

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