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Record W4406799174 · doi:10.1039/d4nr04428b

Forming N-heterocyclic carbene monolayers: not all deposition methods are the same

2025· article· en· W4406799174 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNanoscale · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicSynthesis and properties of polymers
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersNational Institute of General Medical SciencesCanada Foundation for InnovationNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaQueen's UniversityCanada Research ChairsDivision of ChemistryCanada Research Coordinating CommitteeNational Institutes of HealthNational Science Foundation
KeywordsCarbeneMonolayerDeposition (geology)Materials scienceChemistryNanotechnologyCombinatorial chemistryChemical engineeringOrganic chemistryCatalysisGeologyEngineering

Abstract

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adduct, the bicarbonate salt, or the triflate salt. The resulting surfaces are characterized with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS), electrochemistry, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). These data indicate that the free carbene, vacuum annealing, and solvent annealing methods form chemisorbed NHC monolayers, as expected; however, the solution phase methods without annealing yield surfaces with a fundamentally different character. Although XPS is widely used to confirm the binding of NHCs to metal surfaces, it does not capture the differences in these deposition procedures and should be used with caution. Taken together, these results reveal a significant variation of the NHC surface structure as a function of deposition procedure and provide a critical benchmark to govern the design and preparation of future NHC monolayer systems.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.345

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it