Assessing the role of chirality in the formation of rosette-like supramolecular assemblies on surfaces

Andrea Minoia; Zongxia Guo; Hong Xu; S J George; Albertus P H J Schenning; Steven De Feyter; Roberto Lazzaroni

doi:10.1039/c1cc13250d

Assessing the role of chirality in the formation of rosette-like supramolecular assemblies on surfaces

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Oct 21;47(39):10924-6. doi: 10.1039/c1cc13250d. Epub 2011 Sep 12.

Authors

Andrea Minoia¹, Zongxia Guo, Hong Xu, S J George, Albertus P H J Schenning, Steven De Feyter, Roberto Lazzaroni

Affiliation

¹ University of Mons, Place du Parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium. [email protected]

PMID: 21909557
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc13250d

Abstract

Molecular modeling simulations reveal the role of stereogenic centers in the formation of enantiomorphous surface-confined supramolecular rosette-like assemblies in monolayers of oligophenylene vinylene oligomers adsorbed at the graphite/solvent interface.