Organic Chemistry Seminar

Thursday, May 12, 2016

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Atomic Resolution Electron Microscopy: A New Tool for Organic Chemists

Eiichi Nakamura, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo,

In February 2007, we reported movies of the conformational change of a single organic molecule recorded on an atomic resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM).[i] This single-molecule atomic real-time TEM (SMART-TEM) movie of a single molecule provided the first demonstration of our ability to study the connectivity of carbon atoms and their time-dependent changes of single organic molecules and molecular clusters at atomic resolution. Below are illustrated the frames of a movie of a biotin derivative attached to the tip of a carbon nanotube moving slowly in vacuum.[ii] Fundamental science and applications will be discussed.

[i] M. Koshino, et al., Science, 316, 853 (2007). E. Nakamura, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 236-252 (2013).

[ii] R.M. Gorgol, et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 3474-3477 (2015).

For more information, please contact Lynne Martinez by phone at 626-395-4004 or by email at [email protected].

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