Isomerism control of diethylstilbestrol by metal surface induced O-H cleavage

Seung Cheol Oh, Julian A. Lloyd, Sybille Fischer, Özge Saǧlam, Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, Katharina Diller, David A. Duncan, Florian Klappenberger, Francesco Allegretti, Joachim Reichert, Johannes V. Barth

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Abstract

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is studied on Ag(111) and Cu(111) surfaces using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). We find that DES molecules on the silver surface adsorb intact and adopt a trans-conformation. On the more reactive copper surface, O-H bond cleavage results in molecular adsorption in the cis-conformation, thus providing the means of obtaining different adsorption geometries. The difference in isomerism is reflected in the observed self-assemblies which exhibit room-temperature stability.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12495-12498
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume54
Issue number88
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

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