Mechanical stability of bivalent transition metal complexes analyzed by single-molecule force spectroscopy

• Manuel Gensler,
• Christian Eidamshaus,
• Maurice Taszarek,
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
• Jürgen P. Rabe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 817–827, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.91

• systems. Keywords: molecular rupture mechanism; multivalency; malleability; pyridine coordination compounds; scanning force microscopy; Introduction In a multivalent molecular system, two partners interact with each other through two or more non-covalent equivalent interaction centers. This principle is