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Setup of Capillary Electrophoresis-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry CE-ICP-MS for Quantification of Iron Redox Species FeII, FeIII
Published on: May 4, 2020
Observation of current rectification by the new bimetallic iron(iii) hydrophobe [Fe(L
A D K Isuri Weeraratne1, Habib Baydoun, Rajendra Shakya
1Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. cnverani@chem.wayne.edu.
Abstract:
Targeting the development of stimulus-responsive molecular materials with electronic functionality, we have synthesized and studied the redox and electronic properties of a new bimetallic iron hydrophobe [FeIII2(LN4O6)] (1). The new H6LN4O6 ligand displays bicompartmental topology capable of accomodating two five-coordinate HSFeIII ions bridged by tetraaminobenzene at a close distance of ca. 8 Å. We show that the metal-based reduction processes in (1) proceed sequentially, as observed for electronically coupled metal centers. This species forms a well-defined Pockels-Langmuir film at the air-water interface, with collapse pressure of 32 mN m-1. Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers were deposited on gold substrates and used to investigate current-voltage (I-V) measurements. This unprecedented bimetallic hydrophobe [FeIII2(LN4O6)] (1) shows unquestionable molecular rectification and displays a rectification ratio RR between 2 and 15.
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