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[ACIE] 我室洪文晶教授发表论文:Turning the Tap: Conformational Control of Quantum Interference to Modulate Single Molecule Conductance

发布日期:2019年10月22日   浏览次数:

我室洪文晶教授在 ACIE 上发表论文:Turning the Tap: Conformational Control of Quantum Interference to Modulate Single Molecule Conductance

文章链接:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201909461

摘要:

Together with the more intuitive and commonly recognized conductance mechanisms of charge‐hopping and tunneling, quantum interference (QI) phenomena have been identified as important factors affecting charge transport through molecules. Consequently, establishing simple, flexible molecular design strategies to understand, control and exploit QI in molecular junctions poses an exciting challenge. Here we demonstrate that destructive quantum interference (DQI) in meta‐substituted phenylene ethylene‐type oligomers (m‐OPE) can be tuned by changing the position and conformation of pendant methoxy (OMe) substituents around the central phenylene ring. These substituents play the role of molecular‐scale ‘taps’, which can be switched on or off to control the current flow through a molecule. Our experimental results conclusively verify recently postulated magic ratio and orbital product rules, and highlight a novel chemical design strategy for tuning and gating DQI features, to create single‐molecule devices with desirable electronic functions.