Abstract
AbstractOn‐surface chemical reaction has become a very powerful technique to synthesize nanostructures by linking small molecules in the bottom‐up approach. Given the fact that most reactants are simultaneously activated at certain temperatures, a sequential reaction in a controlled way has remained challenging. Here, we present an on‐surface synthesis of multi‐block co‐oligomers from trifluoromethyl (CF3) substituted porphyrin metal complexes. The oligomerization on Au(111) is demonstrated with a combination of bond‐resolved scanning probe microscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Even after the first oligomerization of single monomer unit, the termini of the oligomer keep the CF3 group, which can be used as a reactant for further coupling in a sequential order. Consequently, copper, cobalt, and palladium complexes of bisanthracene‐fused porphyrin oligomers were linked with each other in a designed order.
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