Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 14(50), p. 1728
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc48992b
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Interplay of STM imaging and DFT calculations demonstrates the isomerization of an alkene molecule on Cu(110) under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. We show that the on-surfacecis–transisomerization could efficiently occur well below room temperature, in which the surface is speculated to play a key role in assisting this isomerization process.