With contributions by leading international experts, this book presents a detailed compilation of a new and very active field. It is the first book devoted to the covalent coupling of molecular precursors on surfaces that allows the preparation of 0D, 1D and 2D molecules that cannot be synthesized in solution. This book is aimed at students and researchers interested in nanochemistry and molecular devices and it gives the reader a pedagogical up-to-date vision of the most recent developments. The editor ensures a multidisciplinary approach involving molecular chemistry, surface sciences, surface spectroscopies, theory, scanning tunneling and non-contact atomic force microscopies.

Provides an overview of the state-of-the art and the latest developments in the study of molecular coupling at the single-molecule scale Covers the theoretical and experimental techniques used to study such reactions Was initiated by the first international symposium on "On-surface Synthesis" Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

André Gourdon is CNRS Director of Research and leader of the Nanosciences Group at CEMES/CNRS (www.cemes.fr/GNS). A chemical engineer, after two PhDs, and a post-doc in Oxford, Gourdon moved to the CEMES-CNRS to explore the design and synthesis of molecular devices for nanosciences.

He has coordinated European projects like "CHIC: Consortium for Hamiltonian Intramolecular Computing" and ARTIST: Alternative Routes Towards Information Storage and Transport. He is currently coordinating the large European integrated project PAMS: Planar Atomic and Molecular Scale Devices (pams-project.eu) (2013-2018) with the objective to investigate all scientific and technological aspects of the fabrication of a molecular chip. He is the author of more than 135 scientific publications.

Inhalt
The Emergence of Covalent On-Surface Polymerization.- Transition Metals Trigger On-Surface Ullmann Coupling Reaction: Intermediate, Catalyst and Template.- On-Surface (Cyclo-)dehydrogenation Reactions: Role of Surface Diffusion.- Enediyne Cyclization Chemistry on Surfaces under Ultra-High_Vacuum.- On-Surface Synthesis by Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Reactions on Metal Surfaces.- On-Surface Synthesis of Phthalocyanine Compounds.- Molecular on-surface synthesis: Metal Complexes, Organic Molecules and Organometallic Compounds.- On-Surface Synthesis of Single Conjugated Polymer Chains for Singe-Molecule Devices.- On-Surface Synthesis on Insulating Substrates.- Bottom-up Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Polymers on Solid Surfaces.- On-Surface Dynamic Covalent Chemistry.- Synthesis of Atomically Precise Graphene-Based Nanostructures: A Simulation Point of View.- Formation Mechanisms of Covalent Nanostructures from Density Functional Theory.