Issue 14, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Surface-assisted cis–trans isomerization of an alkene molecule on Cu(110)†

Qiang Sun,‡a   Chi Zhang,‡a   Likun Wang,a   Zhiwen Li,b   Aiguo Hu,b   Qinggang Tana  and  Wei Xu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (Ministry of Education), Tongji University, Caoan Road 4800, Shanghai 201804, P. R. China
E-mail: xuwei@tongji.edu.cn

b School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, East China University of Science and Technology, Mei long Road 130, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China

Abstract

From the interplay of STM imaging and DFT calculations we have investigated the isomerization of an alkene molecule on Cu(110) under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. We show that the on-surface cis–trans isomerization could efficiently occur well below room temperature, in which the copper surface is speculated to play a key role.

Graphical abstract: Surface-assisted cis–trans isomerization of an alkene molecule on Cu(110)

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC48992B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Nov 2013
Accepted
08 Dec 2013
First published
09 Dec 2013

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 1728-1730

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Surface-assisted cis–trans isomerization of an alkene molecule on Cu(110)

Q. Sun, C. Zhang, L. Wang, Z. Li, A. Hu, Q. Tan and W. Xu, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 1728 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC48992B

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