Single-Component and Mixed Ferrocene-Terminated Alkyl Monolayers Covalently Bound to Si(111) Surfaces
- 16 March 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 110 (13), 6848-6855
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp055698n
Abstract
Self-assembled ferrocene monolayers covalently bound to monocrystalline Si(111) surfaces have been prepared from the attachment of an amine-substituted ferrocene derivative to a pre-assembled acid-terminated alkyl monolayer using carbodiimide coupling. This derivatization strategy yielded nanometer-scale clean, densely packed monolayers, with the ferrocene units being more than 20 Å from the semiconductor surface. The amount of immobilized electroactive units could be varied in the range 2 × 10-11 to ∼3.5 × 10-10 mol cm-2 by diluting the ferrocene-terminated chains by inert n-decyl chains. The highest coverage obtained for the single-component monolayer corresponded to 0.25−0.27 bound ferrocene per surface silicon atom. The electrochemical characteristics of the mixed n-decyl/ferrocene-terminated monolayers were found to not depend significantly on the surface coverage of ferrocene units. The reversible one-electron wave of the ferrocene/ferrocenium couple was observed at E°‘ = 0.50 ± 0.01 V vs SCE, and the rate constant of electron transfer kapp was about 50 s-1.Keywords
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