Inside Cover: Switching the Chirality of Single Adsorbate Complexes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 22/2009)
Graphical Abstract
Wrong handedness? No problem! K.-H. Ernst et al. describe in their Communication on page 4065 ff. how the chirality of single adsorbates can be switched into the opposite enantiomeric state. By using inelastically tunneling electrons from the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope in an ultra-high vacuum, certain molecular vibrations are excited that, in turn, cause different actions such as hopping, rotation, and chirality conversion at the surface.
Abstract
Wrong handedness? No problem! K.-H. Ernst et al. describe in their Communication on page 4065 ff. how the chirality of single adsorbates can be switched into the opposite enantiomeric state. By using inelastically tunneling electrons from the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope in an ultra-high vacuum, certain molecular vibrations are excited that, in turn, cause different actions such as hopping, rotation, and chirality conversion at the surface.
