Striped Phase

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +1000

While pursuing metal-organic frameworks, we stumbled on something unexpected but experimentally robust back in June of 2019. DCA molecules and Au adatoms on Ag111 form DCA-Au-DCA units, and the cyano groups aren’t involved as you’d intuitively expect.

It took some heroic effort and creative thinking from Adam & the team in Prague to “just run this one through the computer real quick”, but nonetheless we’re pleased to have this explanation of the selective C-H scisson necessary to justify the observed end products.

Catalysis on Jack Hellerstedt

Striped Phase