On-surface synthesis of a nitrogen-embedded buckybowl with inverse Stone–Thrower–Wales topology

Mishra, Shantanu; Krzeszewski, Maciej; Pignedoli, Carlo A.; Ruffieux, Pascal; Fasel, Roman; Gryko, Daniel T. (2018). On-surface synthesis of a nitrogen-embedded buckybowl with inverse Stone–Thrower–Wales topology. Nature communications, 9(1) Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-018-04144-5

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Curved π-conjugated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, buckybowls, constitute an important class of materials with wide applications in materials science. Heteroatom doping of buckybowls is a viable route to tune their intrinsic physicochemical properties. However, synthesis of heteroatom-doped buckybowls is a challenging task. We report on a combined in-solution and on-surface synthetic strategy toward the fabrication of a buckybowl containing two fused nitrogen-doped pentagonal rings. We employ ultra-high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, in combination with density functional theory calculations to characterize the final compound. The buckybowl contains a unique combination of non-hexagonal rings at its core, identified as the inverse Stone–Thrower–Wales topology, resulting in a distinctive bowl-opening-down conformation of the buckybowl on the surface. Our controlled design of non-alternant, heteroatom-doped polycyclic aromatic frameworks with established bottom-up fabrication techniques opens new opportunities in the synthesis of carbon nanostructures with the perspective of engineering properties of graphene-based devices.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP)

UniBE Contributor:

Fasel, Roman

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics
500 Science > 540 Chemistry

ISSN:

2041-1723

Publisher:

Nature Publishing Group

Language:

English

Submitter:

Roman Fasel

Date Deposited:

22 Nov 2018 11:01

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:19

Publisher DOI:

10.1038/s41467-018-04144-5

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.121393

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/121393

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