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Azo bond formation on metal surfaces
Meng, Xiangzhi,Klaasen, Henning,Viergutz, Lena,Schulze Lammers, Bertram,Witteler, Melanie C.,M?nig, Harry,Amirjalayer, Saeed,Liu, Lacheng,Neugebauer, Johannes,Gao, Hong-Ying,Studer, Armido,Fuchs, Harald
, p. 1458 - 1464 (2021)
The formation of azo compounds via redox cross-coupling of nitroarenes and arylamines, challenging in solution phase chemistry, is achieved by on-surface chemistry. Reaction products are analyzed with a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). By using well-designed precursors containing both an amino and a nitro functionality, azo polymers are prepared on surface via highly efficient nitro-amino cross-coupling. Experiments conducted on other substrates and surface orientations reveal that the metal surface has a significant effect on the reaction efficiency. The reaction was further found to proceed from partially oxidized/reduced precursors in dimerization reactions, shedding light on the mechanism that was studied by DFT calculations.