Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 250-254Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200600675
Keywords
iron; metalation; porphyrin; scanning probe microscopy; self-assembly
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We report a bottom-up approach for the fabrication of metalloporphyrin compounds and nanoarchitectures in two dimensions. Scanning tunneling microscopy and tuneling spectroscopy observations elucidate the interaction of highly regular porphyrin layers self-assembled on a Ag(111) surface with iron monomers supplied by an atomic beam. The Fe is shown to be incorporated selectively in the porphyrin macrocycle whereby the template structure is strictly perserved. The immobilization of the molecular reactants allows the identification of single metalation events in a novel reaction scheme. Because the template layers provide extended arrays of reaction sites, superlattices of coordinatively unsaturated and magnetically active metal centers are obtained. This approach offers novel pathways to realize metallo-porphyrin compounds, low-dimensional metal-organic architectures and patterned surfaces which cannot be achieved by conventional means.
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