Abstract:

2,3,5,6-Tetrachloride-quinone was anchored to a gold surface through the self-assembled monolayers of dithiol [DT HS-(CH2)n-SH n=2,4,6,8,10]. The surface coverage of the anchored TQ was esteminated to be 4.9 ×10-11 mol•cm-2. The electron transfer rate constant Ket associated with the redox process of anchored film decreased from 6.75 s-1 at n=2 to 0.169 s-1 at n=10 with increasing the chain length of the DT SAMs througth the redox potential of TQ. The turning barrier coefficient(β) of the electron transfer was estimated to be 0.82Å-1 from the observed linear relationship between the Ket and the monolayer chain length.

Key words: 2,3,5,6-Tetrachlorde-Quinone, Dithiol, Self-assembled monolayers, Electron transfer rate constant(Ket)