文摘
The initiation and control of chemical coupling has the potential to offer much within the contextof "bottom up" nanofabrication. We report herein the use of a palladium-modified, catalytically active, AFMprobe to initiate and spatially control surface-confined Suzuki and Heck carbon-carbon coupling reactions.These "chemically written reactions", detectable by lateral force and chemically specific optical andtopographic labeling, were patterned with line widths down to 15 nm or ~20 molecules. Catalyzedorganometallic coupling was, in this way, carried out at subzeptomolar levels. By varying the catalyst-substrate interaction times, turnover numbers of (0.6-1.2) × 104 and (3.0-5.0) × 104 molecules s-1 wereresolved for Suzuki and Heck reactions, respectively.