Nanoscale aryleneethynylene molecular wires with reversible fluorenone electrochemistry for self-assembly onto metal surfaces

Changsheng Wang; Andrei S Batsanov; Martin R Bryce; Ian Sage

doi:10.1021/ol0493608

Nanoscale aryleneethynylene molecular wires with reversible fluorenone electrochemistry for self-assembly onto metal surfaces

Org Lett. 2004 Jun 24;6(13):2181-4. doi: 10.1021/ol0493608.

Authors

Changsheng Wang¹, Andrei S Batsanov, Martin R Bryce, Ian Sage

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.

PMID: 15200315
DOI: 10.1021/ol0493608

Abstract

[structure: see text] Two rigid-rod conjugated molecules (11 and 12) of ca. 4 and 7 nm length, respectively, bearing protected terminal thiol groups have been synthesized via multistep Sonogashira coupling reactions and shown to possess reversible cathodic solution electrochemistry arising from reduction of the fluorenone units.