On-Surface Synthesis II

Dimas G. de Oteyza performed his PhD studies at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research and obtained the degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2007. Thereafter he has worked at the National Institute for Materials Science, at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), at the Molecular Foundry of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Centro de Física de Materiales. He is currently an Ikerbasque Research Professor at DIPC. The research throughout his career has been mainly devoted to the investigation of physicochemical phenomena in organic materials and organic-inorganic interfaces, including thin film growth, self-assembly, interface electronics and chemical reactions. He has received honors like the Fonda Fasella Award, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award and an ERC Starting Grant with the objective to study and advance the field of on-surface synthesis.

Preface.- Mechanistic insights into surface-supported chemical reactions.- Kinetic and thermodynamic considerations in on-surface synthesis.- Heat or light? Tools of choice for on-surface synthesis.- Reactivity on and of graphitic substrates at the liquid-solid interface: scanning probe microscopy reveals.- C-H activation as a generic route for on-surface synthesis of complex macromolecules.- Dehydrogenative and dehalogenative homocoupling reactions of C-X groups on metal surfaces.- On-surface Ullmann reaction for the synthesis of macrocycles and polymers.- Bottom-up fabrication of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons.- Aryl-aryl covalent coupling on rutile TiO2 surfaces.- On-surface synthesis of 2D networks: from graphene-like to graphyne-like networks.- Cu- and Pd-catalyzed on-surface coupling reactions.- nc-AFM to Address Long-Standing Chemical Challenges.