Molecule–Metal Bond of Alternant versus Nonalternant Aromatic Systems on Coinage Metal Surfaces: Naphthalene versus Azulene on Ag(111) and Cu(111)

Benedikt P. Klein, Juliana M. Morbec, Markus Franke, Katharina K. Greulich, Malte Sachs, Shayan Parhizkar, Francois C. Boquet, Martin Schmidt, Samuel J. Hall, Reinhard J. Maurer, Bernd Meyer, Ralf Tonner, Christian Kumpf, Peter Kratzer, and J. Michael Gottfried, J. Phys. Chem. C just accepted, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08824 (2019)

"The coverage-dependent interaction of Azulene and Naphthalene with Ag(111) and Cu(111) surfaces was studied with the normal-incidence X-ray standing wave (NIXSW) technique, near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy, UV and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies (UPS and XPS), and density functional theory (DFT). We analyse the interaction strength and charge-transfer at the molecule-metal interface by comparing simulated and measured NEXAFS spectra."