T. Bjornholm et al., STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL-PROPERTIES OF LANGMUIR-BLODGETT-FILMS OF THE ELECTRON-ACCEPTOR 2-OCTADECYLTHIO-1,4-BENZOQUINONE, Synthetic metals, 57(1), 1993, pp. 3807-3812
The electron acceptor 2-octadecylthio-1,4-benzoquinone forms stable mo
nolayers at air/water interfaces. Transfer to hydrophobic substrates y
ields Y-type Langmuir-Blodgett films. By studies of multilayers using
X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy with polarized light a structure mo
del is obtained which shows that a simultaneously close packing of the
head group and alkyl chains is possible. The oxygen-carbon bonds in t
he quinone head group are oriented along the substrate normal accordin
g to the structure model.