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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 140, Issue 4, Pages 1401-1408Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b10980
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL)
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We unravel the origin of the recently observed striking enantioselectivity of the PdGa(111) surface with respect to the adsorption of a small organic molecule, 9-ethynylphenanthrene, using first-principles calculations. It turns out that the key ingredient to understand the experimental evidence is the appropriate description of van der Waals interactions beyond the widely employed atomic pairwise approximation. A recently developed van der Waals-inclusive density functional method, which encompasses dielectric screening effects, reveals the origin of the experimentally observed enantioselectivity and provides conclusive evidence of chiral recognition on a bimetallic surface driven by dispersion interactions. The incorporation of dielectric screening leads to a renormalization of the dispersion interaction range, allowing for the appropriate weighting of the molecule-substrate interactions at intermediate distances between 2.5 and 5 angstrom. Our findings have implications for the structure and stability of complex organic/inorganic systems where dielectric screening effects are expected to be of general importance.
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