Ru2(ap)4(-oligo(phenyleneethynyl)) Molecular Wires: Synthesis and Electronic Characterization
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- 作者：Amy Szuchmacher Blum ; Tong Ren ; Damon A. Parish ; Scott A. Trammell ; M. H. Moore ; James G. Kushmerick ; Guo-Lin Xu ; Jeffrey R. Deschamps ; Steven K. Pollack ; and Ranganathan Shashidhar
- 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
- 出版年：2005
- 出版时间：July 20, 2005
- 年：2005
- 卷：127
- 期：28
- 页码：10010 - 10011
- 全文大小：129K
- 年卷期：v.127,no.28(July 20, 2005)
- ISSN：1520-5126
文摘
Reported in this contribution are the synthesis, characterization, and charge transport properties of wire-like Ru2(ap)4(OPEn), where ap is 2-anilinopyridinate and OPE is -(C
CC6H4)nSCH2CH2SiMe3 with n = 1 (1) and 2 (2). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements of compound 2 inserted into a SAM of C11 thiol reveal that molecule 2 exhibits (i) the stochastic switching characteristic of wire molecules embedded in insulating SAMs and (ii) higher conductivity than the C11 thiol SAM. More importantly, analysis of the molecular electronic decay constant (
) exhibits a decrease of at least 15% as compared to purely organic molecular analogues. Hence, the transport characteristics of molecules can be significantly improved for nanoscale electronics through the incorporation of a Ru2 fragment into conjugated backbone.
CC6H4)nSCH2CH2SiMe3 with n = 1 (1) and 2 (2). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements of compound 2 inserted into a SAM of C11 thiol reveal that molecule 2 exhibits (i) the stochastic switching characteristic of wire molecules embedded in insulating SAMs and (ii) higher conductivity than the C11 thiol SAM. More importantly, analysis of the molecular electronic decay constant () exhibits a decrease of at least 15% as compared to purely organic molecular analogues. Hence, the transport characteristics of molecules can be significantly improved for nanoscale electronics through the incorporation of a Ru2 fragment into conjugated backbone.