Chemistry Letters, Vol.30, No.9, 930-931, 2001
Formation and electrochemical characteristics of multilayers of Au nanoclusters covered by mixed self-assembled monolayers of three kinds of alkanethiols with methyl, ferrocene, or carboxylate terminal group on Au(111) surface
Multilayers of Air nanoclusters covered by self-assembled monolayers containing a mixture of three kinds of alkanethiols terminated by methyl, ferrocene. or carboxylate groups were constructed on a Au(111) surface based on the electrostatic interaction between a carboxylate anion and metal cation. Electrochemical measurements showed that an electron is transferred between ferrocene and the Au(111) electrode through the Au nanocluster cores and/or ferrocene groups.