TY - JOUR A1 - Mielke, Johannes A1 - Hanke, F. A1 - Peters, M.V. A1 - Hecht, S. A1 - Persson, M. A1 - Grill, L. T1 - Adatoms underneath single porphyrin molecules on Au(111) T2 - Journal of the American chemical society N2 - The adsorption of porphyrin derivatives on a Au(111) surface was studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at low temperatures in combination with density functional theory calculations. Different molecular appearances were found and could be assigned to the presence of single gold adatoms bonded by a coordination bond underneath the molecular monolayer, causing a characteristic change of the electronic structure of the molecules. Moreover, this interpretation could be confirmed by manipulation experiments of individual molecules on and off a single gold atom. This study provides a detailed understanding of the role of metal adatoms in surface–molecule bonding and anchoring and of the appearance of single molecules, and it should prove relevant for the imaging of related molecule–metal systems. PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington, DC PY - 2015 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32414 AN - OPUS4-32414 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-324144 UR - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja510528x SN - 0002-7863 SN - 1520-5126 VL - 137 IS - 5 SP - 1844 EP - 1849 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany