On‐surface synthesis and characterization of triply fused porphyrin–graphene nanoribbon hybrids
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- 1. Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- 2. IMDEA-Nanociencia, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- 3. Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- 4. nanotech@surfaces Laboratory, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- 5. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
- 6. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Bakersfield, 9001 Stockdale Highway Bakersfield, CA, USA
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On‐surface synthesis offers a versatile approach to prepare novel carbon‐based nanostructures that cannot be obtained by conventional solution chemistry. Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have potential for a variety of applications. A key issue for their application in molecular electronics is in the fine‐tuning of their electronic properties through structural modifications, such as heteroatom doping or the incorporation of non‐benzenoid rings. In this record we provide data to support our recent publication that reports the covalent fusion of grapnene nanoribbons (GNRs) and porphyrins (Pors). We demonstrated selective on‐surface synthesis of a Por–GNR hybrid, which consists of two Pors connected by a short GNR segment. The atomically precise structure of the Por–GNR hybrid has been characterized by bond‐resolved scanning tunneling microscopy and noncontact atomic force microscopy. The electronic properties have been investigated by scanning tunneling spectroscopy, in combination with DFT calculations, which reveals a low electronic gap of 0.4 eV
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Journal reference L. Mateo, Q. Sun, S.-X. Liu, J. J. Bergkamp, K. Eimre, C. A. Pignedoli, P. Ruffieux, S. Decurtins, G. Bottari, R. Fasel, T. Torres, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59 (3), 1334-1339 (2020), doi: 10.1002/anie.201913024