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Template-Mediated Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Cyclodehydrogenation and Planarization of a
1Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I der Universität, Universitätsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum (Germany).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|January 29, 2000
Abstract:
The deposition of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on substrate surfaces is a key step for using such disklike molecules in nanoelectronic devices. An alternative to the (frequently problematic) preparation by evaporation or deposition from solution is to use the substrate surface as a template for the planarization that accompanies the cyclodehydrogenation (see picture).