TY  - JOUR
AU  - McNellis, E.R.
AU  - Mercurio, G.
AU  - Hagen, S.
AU  - Leyssner, F.
AU  - Meyer, J.
AU  - Soubatch, S.
AU  - Wolf, M.
AU  - Reuter, K.
AU  - Tegeder, P.
AU  - Tautz, F. S.
TI  - Bulky spacer groups - A valid strategy to control the coupling of functional molecules to surfaces?
JO  - Chemical physics letters
VL  - 499
SN  - 0009-2614
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - PreJuSER-12032
SP  - 247-249
PY  - 2010
N1  - Funding by the DFG through SFB658 and TA244 and computing time at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre are gratefully acknowledged. We thank J. Zegenhagen and Y. Mi (ESRF-Grenoble), O. Neucheva (FZJ-Julich) for experimental support as well as M. V. Peters and S. Hecht (HU-Berlin) for the preparation of the azobenzene derivative.
AB  - We examine a popular decoupling strategy for separating functional molecules from metal surfaces, using the molecular switches azobenzene and TBA as examples. Our combined experimental (Normal Incidence X-ray Standing Wave method) and theoretical (Density Functional Theory) study demonstrates that purely structural arguments to predict the functionality of adsorbed molecules have to be taken with much care, as they may turn out to be deceptive. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000283244700012
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.09.051
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/12032
ER  -