Breaking a dative bond with mechanical forces

Pengcheng Chen; Dingxin Fan; Yunlong Zhang; Annabella Selloni; Emily A. Carter; Craig B. Arnold; David C. Dankworth; Steven P. Rucker; James R. Chelikowsky; Nan Yao

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25932-6

Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Breaking a dative bond with mechanical forces

Pengcheng Chen,
Dingxin Fan,
Yunlong Zhang,
Annabella Selloni,
Emily A. Carter,
Craig B. Arnold,
David C. Dankworth,
Steven P. Rucker,
James R. Chelikowsky,
Nan Yao

Affiliations

Pengcheng Chen: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University
Dingxin Fan: McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Yunlong Zhang: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Annabella Selloni: Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Emily A. Carter: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Craig B. Arnold: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University
David C. Dankworth: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Steven P. Rucker: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
James R. Chelikowsky: McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Nan Yao: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25932-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Controlled breaking of a chemical bond by mechanical forces can provide key insight into reaction mechanisms. Here the authors, using atomic force microscopy and computations, measure the forces involved in breaking a single dative bond between a CO molecule and a ferrous phthalocyanine complex.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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