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Published on: July 18, 2018
A butadiyne-linked diruthenium molecular wire self-assembled on a gold electrode surface
Li-Yi Zhang1, Hua-Xin Zhang, Shen Ye
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China.
Abstract:
A 1,3-butadiyne-linked diruthenium complex 4 is successfully brought onto the gold surface in a lying flat mode to form self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) showing reversible multiple redox behaviors on the electrode surface. The diruthenium species with different oxidation states, particularly the Ru(2)(III,III) state which is unstable and impossible to isolate from the solution, can be detected by in situ IR spectroscopy.

