On-Surface Oligomerization of Self-Terminating Molecular Chains for the Design of Spintronic Devices.

Molecular spintronics is currently attracting a lot of attention due to its great advantages over traditional electronics. A variety of self-assembled molecule-based devices are under development, but studies regarding the reliability of the growth process remain rare. Here, we present a method to control the length of molecular spintronic chains and to make their terminations chemically inert, thereby suppressing uncontrolled coupling to surface defects.

Crystal structure of bis-(μ2-4-tert-butyl-2-formyl-phenolato)-1:2κ(3) O (1),O (2):O (1);3:4κ(3) O (1),O (2):O (1)-bis-(4-tert-butyl-2-formyl-phenolato)-2κ(2) O (1),O (2);4κ(2) O (1),O (2)-di-μ3-methoxido-1:2:3κ(3) O;1:3:4κ(3) O-di-μ2-methoxido-1:4κ(2) O;2:3κ(2) O-tetra-copper(II).

The structure of the title compound, [Cu4(CH3O)4(C11H13O2)4], consists of dimeric dinuclear copper(II) complexes oriented around a centre of inversion. Within each dinuclear fragment, the two Cu(II) atoms are in a distorted square-planar coordination sphere. Two neighbouring fragments are linked by four apical Cu-O contacts, yielding an overall square-pyramidal coordination environment for each of the four Cu(II) atoms.

Molecular Kondo chain.

An important development in recent synthesis strategies is the formation of electronically coupled one and two-dimensional organic systems for potential applications in nanoscale molecule-based devices. Here, we assemble one-dimensional spin chains by covalently linking basic molecular building blocks on a Au(111) surface. Their structural properties are studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and the Kondo effect of the basic molecular blocks inside the chains is probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

Electronic structures of organometallic complexes of f elements LXXVI: Correlation of experimental and calculated (on the basis of density functional theory) vibrational spectra of bis(η5-cyclopentadienyl)ruthenium and bis(η5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ruthenium.

Previous empirical assignments of the normal modes of Ru(η(5)-C(5)H(5))(2) were checked against the results of a calculation applying density functional theory (DFT). After some reassignments, following those recently suggested for Fe(η(5)-C(5)H(5))(2) (after theoretical model calculations), a satisfactory agreement was observed. Recently communicated polarized Raman spectra of an oriented Ru(η(5)-C(5)Me(5))(2) single crystal were used here for the identification of the irreducible representations of a number of Raman active normal modes (assuming molecular D(5h) symmetry) which agree well with the results of the DFT calculation.

Stacked nickelocenes: synthesis, structural characterization, and magnetic properties.

The disubstitution of 1,8-diiodonaphthalene (1) with cyclopentadienyl nucleophiles reveals 1,8-(dicyclopentadienyl)-naphthalene, which rapidly undergoes Diels-Alder reaction forming 1,8-(3a',4',7',7a'-tetrahydro-4',7'-methanoindene-7a',8'-diyl)-naphthalene (2). A subsequent retro-Diels-Alder reaction in the presence of sodium hydride yields the disodium salt of 1,8-(dicyclopentadiendiyl)-naphthalene 3. The disodium salt 3 was the starting material to obtain the paramagnetic bisnickelocene derivative 4, which structure was obtained by X-ray structure analysis, revealing two nickelocenes kept together in a stacked fashion by a 1,8-naphthalene clamp.

Chlorido{[2-(dicyclo-hexyl-phosphano-yl)eth-yl]bis-[2-(dicyclo-hexyl-phosphan-yl)eth-yl]phosphane}platinum(II) chloride dichloro-methane hemisolvate tetra-hydrate.

The title compound, [PtCl(C(42)H(78)OP(4))]Cl·0.5CH(2)Cl(2)·4H(2)O, crystallizes as a contact ion-pair with two close inter-molecular C-H⋯Cl(-) contacts between CH acidic αH atoms of the phosphane ligand and the chloride anion. A chloride ligand together with three coordinating P ligand atoms create a slightly distorted square-planar coordination environment around the Pt(II) center.

Bis(1-{bis-[2-(diphenyl-phosphino-yl)eth-yl]phosphan-yl}-2-(diphenyl-phosphan-yl)ethane)dinitratoplatinum(II) methanol tetra-solvate.

In the title compound, [Pt(NO(3))(2)(C(42)H(42)O(2)P(4))(2)]·4CH(3)OH, the Pt atom positioned on a crystallographic centre of inversion. The two symmetry-equivalent nitrate anions are weakly coordinated to the Pt(II) ion, creating, together with four P ligand atoms, a distorted octa-hedral coordination environment. In addition, several close C-H⋯O contacts between the nitrate O atoms and phenyl H atoms are found.