A ligand design with a modified naphthyridylamide for achieving the longest EMACs: the 1st single-molecule conductance of an undeca-nickel metal string

Po-Jung Chen; Marc Sigrist; Er-Chien Horng; Geng-Min Lin; Gene-Hsiang Lee; Chun-Hsien Chen; Shie-Ming Peng

doi:10.1039/c7cc01831b

A ligand design with a modified naphthyridylamide for achieving the longest EMACs: the 1st single-molecule conductance of an undeca-nickel metal string

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Apr 25;53(34):4673-4676. doi: 10.1039/c7cc01831b.

Authors

Po-Jung Chen¹, Marc Sigrist, Er-Chien Horng, Geng-Min Lin, Gene-Hsiang Lee, Chun-Hsien Chen, Shie-Ming Peng

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Centre for Emerging Material and Advanced Devices, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. smpeng@ntu.edu.tw chhchen@ntu.edu.tw.

PMID: 28405649
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc01831b

Abstract

Striding to extend the length of metal-atom strings, oligo-α-pyridylamino ligands are modulated with naphthyridyl moieties leading to the undeca-nickel mixed-valence complexes [Ni₁₁(bnatpya)₄Cl₂]⁴⁺ (1) and [Ni₁₁(bnatpya)₄Cl₂]²⁺ (2). The first single-molecule conductance measurements of a linear undeca-nickel chain were performed.