Issue 5, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Molecules on gold

Nadja Sändiga  and  Francesco Zerbettoa  

a Dipartimento di Chimica “G. Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
E-mail: nadja.sandig@unibo.it, francesco.zerbetto@unibo.it
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Abstract

The high stability of gold makes its surface an attractive substrate for the deposition of molecular materials and their functioning in devices. There are many substantial and profound experimental and theoretical issues that the use of any metal interacting with molecules requires to address. Here, we examine in some detail a semi-empirical computational model able to describe the metal–molecules interactions and provide an overview of the measure of success that it has reached. A number of specific examples are illustrated for a variety of rather large molecular systems. Challenges and future goals are also discussed.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B915580E
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
31 Jul 2009
Accepted
26 Nov 2009
First published
22 Dec 2009

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 667-676

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N. Sändig and F. Zerbetto, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 667 DOI: 10.1039/B915580E

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