Functionalized Diamondoids and Their Electronic Properties for Field Emission

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Peter R. Schreiner
• Subject Area: Solid State and Surface Chemistry, Material Synthesis
• Term: from 2008 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 83371834

• Final Report Year: 2013

Final Report Abstract

As anticipated, the combination of custom synthetic ability and physico-chemical characterization provided a powerful approach to characterize functionalized diamond-like molecules. Computational chemistry methods were used to compute the electronic and structural properties and to compare them to the synthetic and physico-chemical results. We have had high ambitions and they were even exceeded with the extraordinary number and quality of results we received. This truly moves diamondoid chemistry huge steps forward and nicely combines fundamental science with potential applications of these novel materials in organic electronics.

Publications

• Monoprotection of Diols as a Key Step for the Selective Synthesis of Unequally Disubstituted Diamondoids (Nanodiamonds). Functionalized Nanodiamonds, Part 10. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 7789–7792
  Hartmut Schwertfeger, Christian Würtele, Michael Serafin, Heike Hausmann, Robert M. K. Carlson, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, and Peter R. Schreiner
  
• Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy of Diamondoid Thiol Monolayers on Gold. (Functionalized Nanodiamonds Part 9). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 10536–10544
  Trevor M. Willey, Jason D. Fabbri, Jonathan R. I. Lee, Peter R. Schreiner, Andrey A. Fokin, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Natalyia A. Fokina, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Andrew L. Vance, Wanli Yang, Louis J. Terminello, Tony van Buuren, and Nicolas A. Melosh
  
• Determining Orientational Structure of Diamondoid Thiols Attached to Silver Using Near-Edge X- ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy. Functionalized Nanodiamonds part 14. J. Elec. Spec. Rel. Phenom. 2009, 172, 69–77
  Trevor M. Willey, Jonathan R. I. Lee, Jason D. Fabbri, Dongbo Wang, Michael H. Nielsen, Jason C. Randel, Peter R. Schreiner, Andrey A. Fokin, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Natalyia A. Fokina, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Louis J. Terminello, Nicolas A. Melosh, and Tony van Buuren
  
• Origin of the Monochromatic Photoemission Peak in Diamondoid Monolayers. (Functionalized Nanodiamonds, Part 17. Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 57–61
  William A. Clay, Zhi Liu, Wanli Yang, Jason D. Fabbri, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Yun Sun, Peter R. Schreiner, Andrey A. Fokin, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Natalie A. Fokina, Piero A. Pianetta, Nicholas Melosh, and Zhi-Xun Shen
  
• Photoacetylation of Diamondoids: Selectivities and Mechanism. Functionalized Nanodiamonds, part 21. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5153–5161
  Andrey A. Fokin, Pavel A. Gunchenko, Anatoliy A. Novikovsky, Tatyana E. Shubina, Boris V. Chernyaev, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Alexander G. Yurchenko, and Peter R. Schreiner
  
• Reactivities of the Prism-Shaped Diamondoids [1(2)3]Tetramantane and [12312]Hexamantane (Cyclohexamantane). Functionalized Nanodiamonds, Part 12. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 3851–3862
  Andrey A. Fokin, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Natalie A. Fokina, Heike Hausmann, Michael Serafin, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, and Peter R. Schreiner
  
• Synthetic Routes to Aminotriamantanes, Topological Analogues of the Neuroprotector Memantine. Functionalized Nanodiamonds, Part 11. Synthesis 2009, 909–912
  Andrey A. Fokin, Anika Merz, Natalie A. Fokina, Hartmut Schwertfeger, Shenggao L. Liu, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, and Peter R. Schreiner
  
• Diamondoid Phosphines – Selective Phosphorylation of Nanodiamonds. Functionalized Nanodiamonds, part 26. Adv. Synth. Cat. 2010, 352, 609–615
  Hartmut Schwertfeger, Mareike Machuy, Christian Würtele, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Andrey A. Fokin, and Peter R. Schreiner
  
• Synthesis of Diamondoid Carboxylic Acids. Functionalized Nanodiamonds, part 30. Synthesis 2012, 44, 259–264
  Natalie A. Fokina, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Jerremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Andrey A. Fokin, and Peter R. Schreiner