Steering alkyne homocoupling with on-surface synthesized catalysts

Abstract

We report a multi-step on-surface synthesis strategy. The first step consists in the surface-supported synthesis of metal-organic complexes, which are subsequently used as catalysts to steer on-surface alkyne coupling reactions. In addition, we analyze and compare the electronic properties of the different coupling motifs obtained.

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