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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 35: Poster Session I (Metal, semiconductor and oxide substrates: structure and adsorbates; Graphene)
O 35.22: Poster
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 18:15–21:45, Poster B1
Combined photoemission and STM study of the surface-assisted Ullmann coupling reaction — •Min Chen1, Jie Xiao2, Hans-Peter Steinrück2, Shiyong Wang3, Weihua Wang3, Nian Lin3, and Michael Gottfried1 — 1Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg — 2Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg — 3Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Ullmann reaction, a Cu catalyzed C-C coupling reaction for haloarenes has been used for surface-assisted synthesis two-dimensional covalent nanostructures. Generally, this reaction provides a versatile route to the formation of larger arenes and arene-based extended nanostructures, especially one-dimensional molecular wires and two-dimensional covalent organic networks. In this study, we provide evidence for the Ullmann reaction of 4,4''-Dibromo-p-terphenyl (DBTP) and 1,3,5-Tris(4-bromophenyl)benzene (TBB) on Cu(111) by using X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS/UPS) as well as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Assisted by Cu atoms from substrate, the C-Br bonds break between 170 and 240 K, and neighboring molecules get linked through intermediate C-Cu-C bonds. Upon further increasing the temperature, the C-Cu-C bonds are transformed into C-C bonds, such that neighboring arene fragments are covalently coupled, while Cu is released from the bridge positions. STM gives insight into the reaction progress on the molecular level. Our results provide an example for a possible strategy towards the bottom-up construction of functional devices based on molecular building blocks.