@article{10902/34974,
year = {2019},
month = {1},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/34974},
abstract = {Understanding the nature and hierarchy of on-surface reactions is a major challenge for designing coordination and covalent nanostructures by means of multistep synthetic routes. In particular, intermediates and final products are hard to predict since the reaction paths and their activation windows depend on the choice of both the molecular precursor design and the substrate. Here, we report a systematic study of the effect of the catalytic metal surface to reveal how a single precursor can give rise to very distinct polymers that range from coordination and covalent nonplanar polymer chains of distinct chirality to atomically precise graphene nanoribbons and nanoporous graphene. Our precursor consists on adding two phenyl substituents to 10,10'-dibromo-9,9'-bianthracene, a well-studied precursor in the on-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons. The critical role of the monomer design in the reaction paths is inferred from the fact that the phenyl substitution leads to very distinct products in each one of the studied metallic substrates.},
organization = {C.M was supported by the Agency for Management of University and Research grants (AGAUR) of the Catalan government through the FP7 framework program of the European Commission under Marie Curie COFUND action 600385. Funded by the CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MINECO (Grant No. SEV-2013-0295). We acknowledge support from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MAT2013-46593-C6-2-P, MAT2013-46593-C6-5-P, MAT2016-78293-C6-2-R, MAT2016-78293-C6-4-R), Agéncia de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca-AGAUR (2014 SGR715), the EU project PAMS (610446) the Xunta de Galicia (Centro singular de investigacion de Galicia accreditation 2016-2019, ED431G/09), and the European Regional Development Fund.},
publisher = {American Chemical Society},
publisher = {Chemistry of Materials, 2019, 31(2), 331-341},
title = {Critical role of phenyl substitution and catalytic substrate in the surface-assisted polymerization of dibromobianthracene derivatives},
author = {Moreno Sierra, César and Panighel, Mirco and Vilas Varela, Manuel and Sauthier, Guillaume and Ceballos, Gustavo and Peña, Diego and Mugarza, Aitor},
}