Formation and photooxidation of n-dodecanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Au(111): ‘pits’ formed during chemisorption disappear upon oxidation
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 16,p. 1971-1972
- https://doi.org/10.1039/cc9960001971
Abstract
UV photolysis in air of self-assembled n-dodecanethiol monolayers (SAMs) on Au(111) quantitatively oxidizes the adsorbed thiol to its corresponding sulfonate and completely destroys the ordered structure of the SAM without exposing the underlying gold surface; STM images indicate that the etch pits which appear to form during chemisorption of the thiol are lost when the thiol is oxidized.Keywords
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