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Journal Article
Impact of heterocirculene molecular symmetry upon two-dimensional crystallization
2014
Overview
Despite the development of crystal engineering, it remains a great challenge to predict the crystal structure even for the simplest molecules and a clear link between molecular and crystal symmetry is missing in general. Here we demonstrate that the two-dimensional (2D) crystallization of heterocirculenes on a Au(111) surface is greatly affected by the molecular symmetry. By means of ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy, we observe a variety of 2D crystalline structures in the coverage range from submonolayer to monolayer for
D
8h
-symmetric sulflower (C
16
S
8
), whereas
D
4h
-symmetric selenosulflower (C
16
S
4
Se
4
) forms square and rectangular lattices at submonolayer and monolayer coverages, respectively. No long-range ordered structure is observed for
C
1h
-symmetric selenosulflower (C
16
S
5
Se
3
) self-assembling at submonolayer coverage. Such different self-assembly behaviors for the heterocirculenes with reduced molecular symmetries derive from the tendency toward close packing and the molecular symmetry retention in 2D crystallization due to van der Waals interactions.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
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