Electrochemical detection of nanoscale phase separation in binary self-assembled monolayers

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Georgia Lemen, gelemen@georgefox.edu, Whittney Warren, whharris@georgefox.edu, and R. Carlisle Chambers, cchamber@georgefox.edu. Department of Chemistry, GEorge Fox University, 416 N. Meridian St., #4606, Newberg, OR 97132
Developing methods to probe the nature and structure of nanoscale environments continues to be a challenge in nanoscience. We report a cyclic voltammetry investigation of two systems that use internal, hydrogen-bonding to drive phase separation of amide-containing thiols on gold. In the first system, an amide-containing thiol with a terminal ferrocene carboxylate functional group was mixed with a amide-containing thiol diluent in which the orientation of the amide functional group is reversed relative to the electrochemicallly active probe thiol. The second SAM system uses an amide-containing diluent thiol and a triamide-containing thiol with a terminal ferrocene carboxylate functional group.
 

Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Organic Chemistry
11:15 AM-1:15 PM, Monday, 14 March 2005 Convention Center -- Hall D, Poster

Division of Chemical Education

The 229th ACS National Meeting, in San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2005