Oxygen-promoted on-surface synthesis of polyboroxine molecules

Toffoli, Daniele (author), Kladnik, Gregor (author), Cvetko, Dean (author)

We present a protocol for the on-surface synthesis of polyboroxine molecules derived from boroxine molecules precursors. This process is promoted by oxygen species present on the Au(111) surface: oxygen atoms facilitate the detachment of naphthalene units of trinaphthyl-boroxine molecules and bridge two unsaturated boroxine centers to form a boroxine-O-boroxine chemical motif. X-ray spectroscopic characterization shows that, as the synthesis process proceeds, it progressively tunes the electronic properties of the interface, thus providing a promising route to control the electron level alignment.

• Language: English
• Keywords: physical chemistry
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 6 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 30, iss. 47, art. no. e202401565
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-176879
• UDC: 544
• ISSN on article: 0947-6539
• DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401565
• COBISS.SI-ID: 223124227
• Publication date in RUL: 12.12.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Chemistry : a European journal
• Shortened title: Chemistry
• Publisher: Wiley, Chemistry Europe
• ISSN: 0947-6539
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16938501

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: fizikalna kemija