On-Surface Atom-by-Atom-Assembled Aluminum Binuclear Tetrabenzophenazine Organometallic Magnetic Complex.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
The Kondo effect results from the interactions of the conduction electrons in a metal bulk with localized magnetic impurities. While adsorbed atop a metallic surface, the on-surface nanoscale version of this effect is observed when a single magnetic atom or a single magnetic molecule (SMM) is interacting with the conduction electrons. SMMs are commonly organometallic complexes incorporating transition-metal atoms in different oxidation states. We demonstrate how a single nonmagnetic neutral tetrabenzo[a,c,j,h]phenazine molecule can be on-surface-coordinated with exactly two aluminum metal atoms (between Al(I) and Al(II) oxidation state on the Au(111) surface) by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (LT-STM) single-atom manipulation. It results in a Kondo measurable localized molecular magnetic moment. This opens a new way to design SMM complexes without the need for heavy transition-metal atoms and complex ligands to stabilize the molecular coordination sphere.