1 Tongji-Aarhus Joint Research Center for Nanostructures and Functional Nanomaterials and College of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Caoan Road 4800, Shanghai 201804, P. R. China. xuwei@tongji.edu.cn.
From high-resolution UHV-STM imaging and DFT calculations we successfully obtained a 2D polymer structure formed through direct C-H activation followed by an aryl-aryl coupling of a metal-phthalocyanine (CoPc) on Ag(110).