Chiral Single-Molecule Potentiometers Based on Stapled ortho- Oligo(phenylene)ethynylenes

We report on the chemical design of chiral molecular junctions with stress-dependent conductance, whose helicity is maintained during the stretching of a single molecule junction due to the stapling of both ends of the inner helix. In the reported compounds, different conductive pathways are observe...

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Autores: Ortuño, Ana M, Reine, Pablo, Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Luis, Márquez, Irene R., Dednam, W., Lombardi, E. B., Palacios Burgos, Juan José, Leary, Edmund, Longhi, G., Mujica, Vladimiro, Millán, Alba, González, M. Teresa, Zotti, Linda Ángela, Miguel, Delia, Cuerva, Juan Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/707889
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/707889
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202218640
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Chiroptical Properties
Helical Potentiometer
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Spin Filtering
Transport Calculations
Física
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Sumario:We report on the chemical design of chiral molecular junctions with stress-dependent conductance, whose helicity is maintained during the stretching of a single molecule junction due to the stapling of both ends of the inner helix. In the reported compounds, different conductive pathways are observed, with clearly different conductance values and plateau-length distributions, attributed to different conformations of the helical structures. The large chiro-optical responses and the potential use of these molecules as unimolecular spin filters have been theoretically proved using state-of-the-art Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations, including a fully ab-initio estimation of the CISS-originating spin polarization which is done, for the first time, for a realistic molecular system