Two-dimensional separation of [7]helicene enantiomers on Cu(111).

Abstract:

:The adsorption of heptahelicene, a helically shaped polyaromatic hydrocarbon (C(30)H(18)), on a Cu(111) surface was studied by means of thermal desorption mass spectrometry (TDMS) and low energy electron diffraction (LEED) at temperatures between 130-1,000 K under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions. The molecule in the monolayer remains intact up to 400 K. Above that temperature it decomposes in several steps into carbon and hydrogen, desorbing subsequently as H(2). In the saturated monolayer of the racemate the enantiomers are separated into two different domains on the surface which are mirror images of each other. After adsorption of one enantiomer only, no mirror domains were observed.

journal_name

Chirality

journal_title

Chirality

authors

Ernst KH,Kuster Y,Fasel R,Müller M,Ellerbeck U

doi

10.1002/chir.10006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-01-01 00:00:00

pages

675-8

issue

10

eissn

0899-0042

issn

1520-636X

pii

10.1002/chir.10006

journal_volume

13

pub_type

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