On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising research field aimed at
creating new organic materials. A large number of chemical reactions have been …

Computational chemistry provides a versatile toolbox for studying mechanistic details of
catalytic reactions and holds promise to deliver practical strategies to enable the rational in …

Conspectus Carbon-based nanostructures have attracted tremendous interest because of
their versatile and tunable properties, which depend on the bonding type of the constituting …

On-surface synthesis has been one of the hottest research fields in surface science in the
last decade, owing to its great potential for bottom-up synthesis of functional molecules and …

Herein, we report a cross-electrophile coupling of benzonitrile derivatives and aryl halides
with a simple cobalt-based catalytic system under mild conditions to form biaryl compounds …

Ullmann coupling of 4‐bromobiphenyl thermally catalyzed on Ag (111), Cu (111), and Cu
(100) surfaces was scrutinized by scanning tunneling microscopy as well as theoretical …

The electric fields created at solid–liquid interfaces are important in heterogeneous
catalysis. Here we describe the Ullmann coupling of aryl iodides on rough gold surfaces …

On-surface Ullmann coupling reactions of dibromo-biphenyl and diiodo-biphenyl molecules
on Ag (111), Cu (111), Au (111) and Au (100) and by deposited extrinsic Ag and Ni atoms …

Aryl-aryl bond formation is one of the most important tools in modern organic synthesis.
Therefore, there is a high level of interest to develop green, effective reaction system to …

Wurtz reactions feature the dehalogenated coupling of alkyl halides. In comparison to their
widely investigated counterparts, Ullmann reactions, Wurtz reactions have however been …