“…We have recently conducted a series of studies involving bifunctional organic molecules on Si(100)2 × 1 surfaces. By comparing the reactivities of several common functional groups, including halogen atoms (Br, 16 Cl), 17 hydroxyl (OH), 18 carbonyl (C O), 18 carboxylic (COOH), 19 and more recently amino (NH 2 groups, 20 to a reference group such as the ethenyl group (C C), we obtain insights into factors that control their reactivities on the 2 × 1 dimer surface. In the present work, we give the first inter-comparison between two of these functional groups, particularly, the hydroxyl and amino groups, in a simple bifunctional molecule, ethanolamine (OH-CH 2 -CH 2 -NH 2 .…”