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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 76: Organic, Polymeric, Biomolecular Films - also with Adsorbates

O 76.3: Talk

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 15:45–16:00, MA 043

Self-assembled monolayers of aromatic tellurides on gold and silver substrates — Tobias Weidner¹, Andrey Shaporenko¹, Jan Müller², Michael Höltig², Andreas Terfort², and •Michael Zharnikov¹ — ¹Angewandte Physikalische Chemie, Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany — ²Faculty of Chemistry, University of Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) formed from bis(4'-methylbiphenyl-4-yl) ditelluride (BBPDTe) precursors on Au(111) and Ag(111) substrates were characterized by high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy. BBPDTe was found to adsorb dissociative on both substrates, resulting in the formation of well-defined, densely packed, and ordered BPTe SAMs, with a larger molecular inclination, a lower packing density, and inferior crystallinity on Au than on Ag. However, both BPTe/Au and BPTe/Ag were not stable under ambient conditions, but underwent a rapid autooxidation, which affected exclusively the tellurolate headgroups. The BPTe molecules in the oxidized films remained, however, bound to the substrate by the terminal O atoms coordinated to the Te moieties, and the quality of the films, given by parameters such as packing density, degree of the orientational order, and average tilt angle of the SAM constituents was not noticeably affected by the autooxidation. In addition, the BPTe SAMs were compared with the analogous thiol- and selenol-based systems, and common tendencies for the different chalcogen headgroups, ranging from Te to O, were derived.