Triple-Decker Sandwich Compounds Bearing Compact Triallyl Tripods for Molecular Information Storage Applications
- 6 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Inorganic Chemistry
- Vol. 45 (14), 5479-5492
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ic060387s
Abstract
The design of redox-active molecules that afford multistate operation and high charge density is essential for molecular information storage applications. Triple-decker sandwich compounds composed of two lanthanide metal ions and three porphyrinic ligands exhibit a large number of oxidation states within a relatively narrow electrochemical window. High charge density requires a small footprint upon tethering triple deckers to an electroactive surface. All triple deckers examined to date for information storage have been tethered via the terminal ligand and have exhibited large footprints (∼670 Å2). Five new homonuclear (Eu or Ce) triple deckers have been prepared (via statistical or rational methods) to examine the effect of tether attachment site on molecular footprint. Three triple deckers are tethered via the terminal ligand (porphyrin) or central ligand (porphyrin or imidazophthalocyanine), whereas two triple deckers each bear two tethers, one at each terminal ligand. The tether is a compact triallyl tripod. Monolayers of the triple deckers on Si(100) were examined by electrochemical and FTIR techniques. Each triple decker exhibited the expected four resolved voltammetric waves, owing to formation of the mono-, di-, tri-, and tetracations. The electrochemical studies of surface coverage (Γ, obtained by integrating the voltammetric waves) reveal that coverages approaching 10-10 mol cm-2, corresponding to a molecular footprint of ∼170 Å2, are readily achieved for all five of the triple deckers. The surface coverage observed for the tripodal functionalized triple deckers is approximately 4-fold higher than that obtained for monopodal-functionalized triple deckers (carbon, oxygen, or sulfur anchor atoms) attached to either Si(100) or Au(111). The fact that similar, relatively high, surface coverages can be achieved regardless of the location (or number) of the tripodal tether indicates that the tripodal functionalization, rather than the location of the tether, is the primary determinant of the packing density.Keywords
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