Assembly of Chiral Amino-Acids at Surfaces from a Single Molecule Perspective: Proline on Cu(110)
Journal article, 2011

We present a molecule-by-molecule mapping of an amino-acid monolayer on a Cu(110) surface in which individual molecular configuration, bonding and adsorption footprints are identified. This detailed mapping provides direct evidence that the (4 x 2) structures of enantiopure and racemic proline are governed by a strict heterochiral adsorption footprint template. For the racemic system this has an interesting consequence, namely that it leads to a 2-D random solid solution, a situation that is rarely encountered in 3-D.

Scanning tunnelling microscopy

Chiral

Random solid solutions

surfaces

Footprints

Amino acids

Author

M. Forster

University of Liverpool

M. S. Dyer

University of Liverpool

Mats Persson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Materials and Surface Theory

R. Raval

University of Liverpool

Topics in Catalysis

1022-5528 (ISSN) 1572-9028 (eISSN)

Vol. 54 1-4 13-19

Subject Categories

Chemical Sciences

DOI

10.1007/s11244-011-9634-9

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2/28/2018