Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Stepwise on-surface dissymmetric reaction to construct binodal organometallic network

  • Jing Liu,
  • Qiwei Chen,
  • Kang Cai,
  • Jie Li,
  • Yaru Li,
  • Xiao Yang,
  • Yajie Zhang,
  • Yongfeng Wang,
  • Hao Tang,
  • Dahui Zhao,
  • Kai Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10522-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Dissymmetric functionalization of equivalent sites in a molecule is a synthetic challenge. Here, the authors achieve an on-surface dissymmetric reaction of a molecular precursor through stepwise activation of its identical functional groups, leading to the formation of a 2D organometallic network with two types of nodes.