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Chiral nanoscale pores created during the surface explosion of tartaric acid on Cu(111)
A J Therrien1, T J Lawton1, B Mernoff1
1Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, 62 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155, USA. charles.sykes@tufts.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 24, 2016
Abstract:
The autocatalytic decomposition of tartaric acid on Cu(111) exhibits unique kinetics, which are linked to a hexagonal surface structure adopted at high coverage. The chirality imposed on the surface by tartaric acid throughout the explosion process is presented, and the hexagonal structure shows promise as a chiral template for enantiospecific surface chemistry.
