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Single molecule level plasmonic catalysis – a dilution study of p-nitrothiophenol on gold dimers
Zhenglong Zhang1, Tanja Deckert-Gaudig, Pushkar Singh
1Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany. volker.deckert@ipht-jena.de.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 20, 2015
Abstract:
Surface plasmons on isolated gold dimers can initiate intermolecular reactions of adsorbed p-nitrothiophenol. At the single molecule level when dimerization is not possible an intramolecular reaction can be observed. Experimental evidence indicates that plasmon-induced hot electrons provide the required activation energy.
