Imaging the electronic structure of on-surface generated hexacene

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Feb 4;53(10):1583-1586. doi: 10.1039/c6cc09327b. Epub 2016 Dec 19.

Abstract

Surface-assisted reduction of specially designed air-stable precursors allows us to study single hexacene molecules on Au(111) by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, mapping with intramolecular resolution their extended electronic eigenstates.