Niko Pavliček, Anish Mistry, et al.
Nature Nanotechnology
Aiming to study new motifs, potentially active as functional materials, we performed the synthesis of a naphthodiazaborinine (the BN isostere of the phenalenyl anion) that is bonded to a hindered di-ortho-substituted aryl system (9-anthracene). We used atomic force microscopy (AFM) and succeeded in both the verification of the original nonplanar structure of the molecule and the planarization of the skeleton by removing H atoms that cause steric hindrance. This study demonstrated that planarization by atomic manipulation is a possible route for extending molecular identification by AFM to nonplanar molecular systems that are difficult to probe with AFM directly.
Niko Pavliček, Anish Mistry, et al.
Nature Nanotechnology
Zsolt Majzik, Niko Pavliček, et al.
Nature Communications
Michael Ellner, Niko Pavliček, et al.
Nano Letters
Iago Pozo, Zsolt Majzik, et al.
JACS