Simple Molecules on Gold

Chemisorption of simple molecules on gold, G. C. Bond, C. Louis, and D. T. Thompson, Catalysis by Gold, 2006, 126-127. London Imperial College Press. 

Kubiak and coworkers used STM in an ultra-high vacuum environment to study the conductance through self-assembled monolayers of simple Jt-conju-gated, thiol-terminated molecules on gold [21-23, 59] Early work, which focused on the p-xylyldithiol 82 monolayers [22, 23], was later expanded to include also short oligophenylenes (OPs) (81 and 83) that were terminated at either one or both ends by thiol or isocyanide groups [21]. Based on this work, a relatively simple model was presented to account for the observed conductance spectra of the junctions [22],... 

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