Issue 17, 2019

O2, NO2 and NH3 coordination to Co-porphyrin studied with scanning tunneling microscopy on Au(111)

Abstract

The coordination structure between small molecules and metalloporphyrins plays a crucial role in functional reactions such as bio-oxidation and catalytic activation. Their vertical, tilting, and dynamic structures have been actively studied with diffraction and resonance spectroscopy for the past four decades. Contrastingly, real-space visualization beyond simple protrusion and depression is relatively rare. In this paper, high-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) images are presented of di-, tri-, and tetra-atomic small molecules (O2, NO2, and NH3, respectively) coordinated to Co-porphyrin on Au(111). A square ring structure was observed for O2, a rectangular ring structure for NO2, and a bright-center structure for NH3 at 80 K. The symmetries of experimental STM images were reproduced in density functional theory (DFT) calculations, considering the precession motion of the small molecules. Thus, this study shows that the structure of small molecules coordinated to metalloporphyrins can be visualized using high-resolution STM and DFT calculations.

Graphical abstract: O2, NO2 and NH3 coordination to Co-porphyrin studied with scanning tunneling microscopy on Au(111)

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Jan 2019
Accepted
09 Apr 2019
First published
16 Apr 2019

Nanoscale, 2019,11, 8510-8517

O2, NO2 and NH3 coordination to Co-porphyrin studied with scanning tunneling microscopy on Au(111)

M. H. Chang, N. Kim, Y. H. Chang, Y. Lee, U. S. Jeon, H. Kim, Y. Kim and S. Kahng, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 8510 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR00843H

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