Cm. Yam et Ak. Kakkar, A NOVEL ROUTE TO EFFICIENT INORGANIC OXIDE SURFACE MODIFICATIONS - MOLECULARLY SELF-ASSEMBLED LINEAR AND CONJUGATED ALKYNYL THIN-FILM MATERIALS, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (8), 1995, pp. 907-909
Treatment of surface hydroxy groups on glass, quartz and single crysta
l silicon with commercially available group 14 chlorides, ECl(4) (E =
Si, Sn), and then NEt(2)H yields surface-anchored NEt(2) moieties, whi
ch react with several organic molecules containing terminal acidic pro
tons, including rigid-rod alkynes, via acid-base hydrolysis, leading t
o molecularly self-assembled chromophoric monolayers.