Real-space visualization of sequential debromination of polybrominated benzenes on Ag(111).

Chem Commun (Camb)

Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, People's Republic of China.

Published: January 2023

By a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy imaging and density functional theory calculations, dehalogenation processes of symmetric polyhalogenated benzenes were explored on Ag(111), and a series of intermediate states were captured and visualized in real space. These results reveal a sequential dehalogenation scenario of symmetric polybrominated aromatics, which will broaden the understanding of on-surface dehalogenation reactions.

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