Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Electrochemical deposition of N-heterocyclic carbene monolayers on metal surfaces

  • Einav Amit,
  • Linoy Dery,
  • Shahar Dery,
  • Suhong Kim,
  • Anirban Roy,
  • Qichi Hu,
  • Vitaly Gutkin,
  • Helen Eisenberg,
  • Tamar Stein,
  • Daniel Mandler,
  • F. Dean Toste,
  • Elad Gross

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19500-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have been widely used for the formation of monolayers but self-assembly methods come with drawbacks such as need for dry environment or using specifically-synthesized precursors. Here, the authors demonstrate an approach for surface-anchoring of NHCs which overcomes these limitations by using electrochemically-assisted deprotonation.