Issue 30, 2015

Bead-like structures and self-assembled monolayers from 2,6-dipyrazolylpyridines and their iron(ii) complexes

Abstract

Drop-casting acetone solutions of [Fe(bpp)2][BF4]2 (bpp = 2,6-di[pyrazol-1-yl]pyridine) onto a HOPG surface affords unusual chain-of-beads nanostructures. The beads in each chain are similar in size, with diameters in the range of 2–6 nm and heights of up to 10 Å, which is consistent with them containing between 10–50 molecules of the compound. The beads can be classified into two types, which exhibit different conduction regimes by current-imaging tunnelling spectroscopy (CITS) which appear to correlate with their positions in the chains, and may correspond to molecules containing high-spin and low-spin iron centres. Similarly drop-cast films of the complex on a gold surface contain the intact [Fe(bpp)2][BF4]2 compound by XPS. 4-Mercapto-2,6-di[pyrazol-1-yl]pyridine undergoes substantial decomposition when deposited on gold, forming elemental sulfur, but 4-(N-thiomorpholinyl)-2,6-di[pyrazol-1-yl]pyridine successfully forms SAMs on a gold surface by XPS and ellipsometry.

Graphical abstract: Bead-like structures and self-assembled monolayers from 2,6-dipyrazolylpyridines and their iron(ii) complexes

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 May 2015
Accepted
26 May 2015
First published
27 May 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 7890-7896

Bead-like structures and self-assembled monolayers from 2,6-dipyrazolylpyridines and their iron(II) complexes

L. Pukenas, F. Benn, E. Lovell, A. Santoro, L. J. Kershaw Cook, M. A. Halcrow and S. D. Evans, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 7890 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC01233C

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