This work describes an efficient novel method to incorporate reactive disulfide bonds onto a silica surface
under mild reaction conditions. The reactive thiol groups introduced onto the silicon surface in the first
reaction step will be oxidized but easily converted into highly reactive thiopyridyl groups, which can
therefore easily be utilized for further organic synthesis involving thiol-containing molecules. This is done
in a way that yields approximately a monolayer of reactant on the surface, thereby not adding to the
roughness of the surface, of special importance, for instance, for single molecule interaction studies.
Cobalt tetraarylporphyrins 1-Co and 2-Co with thioacetatefunctionalized carbon chains on the aryl groups were synthesized. The cobalt porphyrin 2-Co was immobilized on a gold surface after deprotection of the S-acetyl group. The immobilized porphyrin was studied by X-ray Photoelectron Spec-
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