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    Single-Molecule Conductance in a Series of Extended Viologen Molecules
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    J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of ASCR, v.v.i., Dolejškova 3, 18223 Prague, Czech Republic
    Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of ASCR, v.v.i., Flemingovo n. 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic
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    Cite this: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 4, 589–595
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    Published January 29, 2013
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    Single-molecule conductance in a series of extended viologen molecules was measured at room temperature using a gold–molecule–gold scanning tunneling microscopy break junction arrangement. Conductance values for individual molecules change from 4.8 ± 1.2 nS for the shortest compound to 2.9 ± 1.0 nS for the compound with six repeating units and length of 11 nm. The latter value is almost 3 orders of magnitude higher than that reported for all-carbon-based aromatic molecular wires of comparable length. On the basis of the length of the molecules, an attenuation factor of only 0.06 ± 0.004 nm–1 (0.006 ± 0.0004 Å–1) was obtained. To the best of our knowledge, this is the smallest value reported for the conductance attenuation in a series of molecular wires.

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    Chemical names, structures, and characterization of the extended viologen compounds; further experimental details on sample preparation and characterization (PMIRRAS and STM characterization of the adsorbed films); conductance histograms of compounds 24 obtained from the current jump values; current–distance curves with both low and high current values; DFT calculations and the energy level alignment. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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