Effect of hydrogen-interactions on electrochemical behavior of bithiophene self-assembled monolayers containing amide moieties

Spontaneous assembly of silylethane-thiol derivatives on Au(111): a chemically robust thiol protecting group as the precursor for the direct formation of aromatic gold thiolate monolayers

“…These values are close to those previously reported for SAMs prepared from unsubstituted conjugated structures such as tetrathiafulvalene 24 or bithiophene. 25 Such a relatively high density for SAMs prepared from 4 and 5 was unexpected because of the steric hindrance involved by the bulky lateral alkyl chains (i.e. 2-ethylhexyloxy groups).…”