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SCIENCE
Volume 312, Issue 5777, Pages 1196-1199Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126073
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A covalent bond between an individual pentacene molecule and a gold atom was formed by means of single-molecule chemistry inside a scanning tunneling microscope junction. The bond formation is reversible, and different structural isomers can be produced. The single-molecule synthesis was done on ultrathin insulating films that electronically isolated the reactants and products from their environment. Direct imaging of the orbital hybridization upon bond formation provides insight into the energetic shifts and occupation of the molecular resonances.
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