@article{fabre_noncovalent_2010,
title = {Noncovalent assembly of ferrocene on modified gold surfaces mediated by uracil–adenine base pairs},
author = {Bruno Fabre and Soraya Ababou-Girard and Prabhpreet Singh and Jitendra Kumar and Sandeep Verma and Alberto Bianco},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388248110001451},
doi = {10.1016/j.elecom.2010.03.045},
issn = {1388-2481},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-06-01},
urldate = {2020-04-01},
journal = {Electrochemistry Communications},
volume = {12},
number = {6},
pages = {831--834},
abstract = {Redox-active ferrocene was assembled on gold surfaces through the hydrogen bonding interactions between adenine-substituted ferrocene and a uracil-terminated organothiol monolayer. The surface coverage of ferrocene Γ could be varied from ca. 4×10−11 to 2.0×10−10molcm−2 by diluting the thiol-modified uracil derivative with inert 1-octanethiol. A decrease in the apparent electron transfer rate constant for ferrocene, kapp, from ca. 50 to 10s−1 was observed upon increasing Γ.},
keywords = {Electrochemistry, Ferrocene, Gold surface, I2CT, Monolayer, Nucleobases, Team-Bianco},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Redox-active ferrocene was assembled on gold surfaces through the hydrogen bonding interactions between adenine-substituted ferrocene and a uracil-terminated organothiol monolayer. The surface coverage of ferrocene Γ could be varied from ca. 4×10−11 to 2.0×10−10molcm−2 by diluting the thiol-modified uracil derivative with inert 1-octanethiol. A decrease in the apparent electron transfer rate constant for ferrocene, kapp, from ca. 50 to 10s−1 was observed upon increasing Γ.