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Mary-Ambre Carvalho1, Hervé Dekkiche1, Mayumi Nagasaki2
1Institut de Chimie, UMR 7177 du CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , 4 rue Blaise Pascal , 67000 Strasbourg , France.
Abstract:
Nanostructures were built at the solid/liquid interface by self-assembly and/or coordination bonds. Metalloporphyrins bearing two external coordination sites and long alkyl chains allowed the self-assembly of the compounds on highly oriented pyrolitic graphite. After addition of a metal ion, long transition-metal linked porphyrin nanoribbons were obtained and visualized by scanning tunneling microscopy. In these porphyrin ribbons electronic delocalization is possible through the d orbitals of the connecting metal ions.
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