Unimolecular Electrical Rectification in Hexadecylquinolinium Tricyanoquinodimethanide

Macroscopic and nanoscopic current−voltage measurements reveal asymmetries in the DC electrical conductivity through Langmuir−Blodgett multilayers and even monolayers of γ-(n-hexadecyl)quinolinum tricyanoquinodimethanide, C16H33Q-3CNQ (5). These asymmetries are due to a transition of the ground-stat...

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Published in:	Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 119; no. 43; pp. 10455 - 10466
Main Authors:	Metzger, Robert M, Chen, Bo, Höpfner, Ulf, Lakshmikantham, M. V, Vuillaume, Dominique, Kawai, Tsuyoshi, Wu, Xiangli, Tachibana, Hiroaki, Hughes, Terry V, Sakurai, Hiromi, Baldwin, Jeffrey W, Hosch, Christina, Cava, Michael P, Brehmer, Ludwig, Ashwell, Geoffrey J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Chemical Society 29-10-1997
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Summary:	Macroscopic and nanoscopic current−voltage measurements reveal asymmetries in the DC electrical conductivity through Langmuir−Blodgett multilayers and even monolayers of γ-(n-hexadecyl)quinolinum tricyanoquinodimethanide, C16H33Q-3CNQ (5). These asymmetries are due to a transition of the ground-state zwitterion to an excited-state conformer which is probably neutral. Unimolecular electrical rectification by monolayers of 5 is unequivocally confirmed.
Bibliography:	Abstract published in Advance ACS Abstracts, October 1, 1997. istex:1A6EC3D1072DCE77E6F69086F75871FED72EF4A9 ark:/67375/TPS-PWQZ4728-8
ISSN:	0002-7863 1520-5126
DOI:	10.1021/ja971811e