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Potential-controlled switching of 2-(2'-thienyl)pyridine adsorbed on Au(111)
Emily Chung1, Dan Bizzotto, Michael O Wolf
1Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z1.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 23, 2003
Abstract:
Switching between three different adsorbed states was achieved using potential control to separately induce electrochemical behaviour associated with changes in binding and orientation of the thiophene and pyridine moieties of 2-(2'-thienyl)pyridine adsorbed to Au(111) in neutral and basic solution.
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