Surface Supramolecular Organization of a Terbium(III) Double-Decker Complex on Graphite and its Single Molecule Magnet Behavior

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• 作者：Mathieu Gonidec ; Roberto Biagi ; Valdis Corradini ; Fabrizio Moro ; Valentina De Renzi ; Umberto del Pennino ; Domenico Summa ; Luca Muccioli ; Claudio Zannoni ; David B. Amabilino ; Jaume Veciana
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：May 4, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：133
• 期：17
• 页码：6603-6612
• 全文大小：1171K
• 年卷期：v.133,no.17(May 4, 2011)
• ISSN：1520-5126

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The two-dimensional self-assembly of a terbium(III) double-decker phthalocyanine on highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG) was studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM), and it was shown that it forms highly regular rectangular two-dimensional nanocrystals on the surface, that are aligned with the graphite symmetry axes, in which the molecules are organized in a rectangular lattice as shown by scanning tunneling microscopy. Molecular dynamics simulations were run in order to model the behavior of a collection of the double-decker complexes on HOPG. The results were in excellent agreement with the experiment, showing that鈥攁fter diffusion on the graphite surface鈥攖he molecules self-assemble into nanoscopic islands which align preferentially along the three main graphite axes. These low dimension assemblies of independent magnetic centers are only one molecule thick (as shown by AFM) and are therefore very interesting nanoscopic magnetic objects, in which all of the molecules are in interaction with the graphite substrate and might therefore be affected by it. The magnetic properties of these self-assembled bar-shaped islands on HOPG were studied by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, confirming that the compounds maintain their properties as single-molecule magnets when they are in close interaction with the graphite surface.