Experimental and Computational Studies of Single-Molecule Conductance of Ru(II) and Pt(II) trans-Bis(acetylide) Complexes

Al-Owaedi, Oday A.; Milan, David C.; Oerthel, Marie-Christine; Bock, Sören; Yufit, Dmitry S.; Howard, Judith A.K.; Higgins, Simon J.; Nichols, Richard J.; Lambert, Colin J.; Bryce, Martin R.; Low, Paul J.

doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00472

Experimental and Computational Studies of Single-Molecule Conductance of Ru(II) and Pt(II) trans-Bis(acetylide) Complexes

Al-Owaedi, Oday A.; Milan, David C.; Oerthel, Marie-Christine; Bock, Sören; Yufit, Dmitry S.; Howard, Judith A.K.; Higgins, Simon J.; Nichols, Richard J.; Lambert, Colin J.; Bryce, Martin R.; Low, Paul J.

Authors

Oday A. Al-Owaedi

David C. Milan

Marie-Christine Oerthel

Sören Bock

Dmitry S. Yufit

Judith A.K. Howard

Simon J. Higgins

Richard J. Nichols

Colin J. Lambert

Professor Martin Bryce m.r.bryce@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Paul J. Low

Abstract

The single-molecule conductance of metal complexes of the general forms trans-Ru(C≡CArC≡CY)2(dppe)2 and trans-Pt(C≡CArC≡CY)2(PPh3)2 (Ar = 1,4-C6H2-2,5-(OC6H13)2; Y = 4-C5H4N, 4-C6H4SMe) have been determined using the STM I(s) technique. The complexes display high conductance (Y = 4-C5H4N, M = Ru (0.4 ± 0.18 nS), Pt (0.8 ± 0.5 nS); Y = 4-C6H5SMe, M = Ru (1.4 ± 0.4 nS), Pt (1.8 ± 0.6 nS)) for molecular structures of ca. 3 nm in length, which has been attributed to transport processes arising from tunneling through the tails of LUMO states

Citation

Al-Owaedi, O. A., Milan, D. C., Oerthel, M., Bock, S., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., …Low, P. J. (2016). Experimental and Computational Studies of Single-Molecule Conductance of Ru(II) and Pt(II) trans-Bis(acetylide) Complexes. Organometallics, 35(17), 2944-2954. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00472

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Aug 3, 2016
Publication Date	Sep 12, 2016
Deposit Date	Aug 30, 2016
Publicly Available Date	Aug 31, 2016
Journal	Organometallics
Print ISSN	0276-7333
Electronic ISSN	1520-6041
Publisher	American Chemical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	35
Issue	17
Pages	2944-2954
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00472

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