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Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (BKCS)

ISSN 0253-2964(Print)
ISSN 1229-5949(Online)
Volume 30, Number 2
BKCSDE 30(2)
February 20, 2009

Title	Formation and Structure of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Octylthioacetates on Au(111) in Catalytic Tetrabutylammonium Cyanide Solution
Author	Taesung Park, Hungu Kang, Inchang Choi, Hoeil Chung, Eisuke Ito, Masahiko Hara, Jaegeun Noh*
Keywords	Octylthioacetate, Tetrabutylammonium cyanide, Self-assembled monolayers, Scanning tunneling microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Abstract	The formation and structure of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) by the adsorption of acetyl-protected octylthioacetate (OTA) on Au(111) in a catalytic tetrabutylammonium cyanide (TBACN) solution were examined by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and cyclic voltammetry (CV). Molecular-scale STM imaging revealed that OTA molecules on Au(111) in a pure solvent form disordered SAMs, whereas they form well-ordered SAMs showing a c(4 × 2) structure in a catalytic TBACN solution. XPS and CV measurements also revealed that OTA SAMs on Au(111) formed in a TBACN solution have a stronger chemisorbed peak in the S 2p region at 162 eV and a higher blocking effect compared to OTA SAMs formed in a pure solvent. In this study, we clearly demonstrate that TBACN can be used as an effective deprotecting reagent for obtaining well-ordered SAMs of thioacetyl-protected molecules on gold.
Page	441 - 444
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