The self-assembly and pyridine regulation of a hydrogen-bonded dimeric building block formed by a low-symmetric aromatic carboxylic acid
Siqi Zhang, Chen Chen, Jianqiao Li, Chunyu Ma, Xiaokang Li, Wei Ma, Min Zhang, Faliang Cheng, Ke Deng, Qingdao Zeng
Abstract
BHB molecule, and the molecular arrangement of the co-assembly structures varies with the shape of the pyridine molecules. Based on the analysis of the STM results and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the formation mechanism of the assembled structures was revealed.
Topics & Concepts
MoleculePyridineDimerSupramolecular chemistryChemistryScanning tunneling microscopeSelf-assemblyCarboxylic acidHydrogen bondCrystallographyDensity functional theoryAromaticityMaterials scienceComputational chemistryNanotechnologyPolymer chemistryOrganic chemistrySurface Chemistry and CatalysisForce Microscopy Techniques and ApplicationsAdvanced Chemical Physics Studies