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Vernier templating and synthesis of a 12-porphyrin nano-ring

An electrospray deposition system designed and built by O’Shea was used to transfer cyclic polymers (nanorings synthesised by Oxford chemists) from solution onto a Au(111) surface held under ultra-high vacuum. O’Shea supervised the use of the system by Saywell (PhD student) and Blunt (postdoc). He also contributed to the interpretation of STM images; these provided a direct analytic route to verify the Oxford synthetic methodology by distinguishing between cyclic nanorings and analogue linear polymers which were studied previously within this collaboration (Saywell et.al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49 9136 (2010)).