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Chemical and Physical Properties of Single Molecules and Their Assemblies Adsorbed on Solid Surfaces
Houska, Václav ; Starý, Ivo (advisor) ; Mazal, Ctibor (referee) ; Církva, Vladimír (referee)
Interaction of organic molecules with solid surfaces represents a key area of physical-chemistry research. From heterogenous catalysis to OLED displays, in numerous such systems molecules interact on interfaces, and understanding their behavior is crucial for the correct operation of such applications. In this work, I focused on the study of large π-conjugated macrocycles based on dibenzo[5]helicenes with emphasis on their behavior on graphite surface. The chemical synthesis of the investigated macrocycles was initially impeded by a number of obstacles, particularly by their extremely low solubility. In this work, an efficient solubilization strategy based on the modification of the macrocycles with trityl groups was discovered, which effectively diminishes the intense intermolecular π-π interactions. This opened a path towards a subsequent study of the compound's properties. The attention was focused mainly on a trimer, which was successfully fully characterized, enabling further experiments. Since only a few tens of milligrams of the trimer was prepared, and some stereoisomers were isolated in only microscopic amounts, it was important to develop a suitable experimental methodology. These methods were successfully employed in the measurement of the isomerization kinetics, which allowed us to map...
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