Issue 10, 2011
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Chemical Communications

STM studies of single molecules: molecular orbital aspects

Bin Li,a   Zhenyu Li,a   Jinlong Yang*a  and  J. G. Hou*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
E-mail: jlyang@ustc.edu.cn, jghou@ustc.edu.cn
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Abstract

As a fundamental and frequently referred concept in modern chemistry, the molecular orbital plays a vital role in the science of single molecules, which has become an active field in recent years. For the study of single molecules, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been proven to be a powerful scientific technique. Utilizing specific distribution of the molecular orbitals at spatial, energy, and spin scales, STM can explore many properties of single molecule systems, such as geometrical configuration, electronic structure, magnetic polarization, and so on. Various interactions between the substrate and adsorbed molecules are also understood in terms of the molecular orbitals. Molecular engineering methods, such as mode-selective chemistry based on the molecular orbitals, and resonance tunneling between the molecular orbitals of the molecular sample and STM tip, have stimulated new advances of single molecule science.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC03021J
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
04 Aug 2010
Accepted
13 Dec 2010
First published
04 Feb 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 2747-2762

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B. Li, Z. Li, J. Yang and J. G. Hou, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 2747 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03021J

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