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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Coord Chem Rev. 2010 Oct 1;254(19-20):2297–2310. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.05.014

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Assemblies of Ni(II) and Fe(II) phthalocyanine on Au(111). While both systems contain a central metal atom with the same valance, the Fe d6 system has greater orbital density near the Fermi level leading to an observed increased tunneling probability than that of the Ni d8 containing species. Reproduced from ref. [112] with permission of the copyright holders. These authors also examined d7 and d9 phthalocyanines [111].