Communications Chemistry (Mar 2021)

Pyrazinacenes exhibit on-surface oxidation-state-dependent conformational and self-assembly behaviours

  • David Miklík,
  • S. Fatemeh Mousavi,
  • Zuzana Burešová,
  • Anna Middleton,
  • Yoshitaka Matsushita,
  • Jan Labuta,
  • Aisha Ahsan,
  • Luiza Buimaga-Iarinca,
  • Paul A. Karr,
  • Filip Bureš,
  • Gary J. Richards,
  • Pavel Švec,
  • Toshiyuki Mori,
  • Katsuhiko Ariga,
  • Yutaka Wakayama,
  • Cristian Morari,
  • Francis D’Souza,
  • Thomas A. Jung,
  • Jonathan P. Hill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00470-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Acenes are a promising class of organic materials with distinctive electronic and optical properties. Here decaazapentacene and octaazatetracenes are prepared and their self-assembly behaviour at different oxidation states is analysed.