Correlating Electron Transport and Molecular Structure in Organic Thin Films

The Communication by G. M. Whitesides and co-workers in Issue 12, 2001, pp. 2316–2320 should have referenced a paper that was published at approximately the same time and contained some of the same experimental data: R. E. Holmlin, R. Haag, M. L. Chabinyc, R. F. Ismagilov, A. E. Cohen, A. Terfort, M. A. Rampi, G. M. Whitesides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 5075–5085 (“Electron Transport through Thin Organic Films in Metal-Insulator-Metal Junctions Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers”). This full paper gives the details of the largest part of the experimental work communicated in Angewandte Chemie. Omission of this reference gave the impression of “duplicate publication”, for which the authors apologize to both journals. The acknowledgement should also have listed the affiliation of Dr. Andreas Terfort as the Institute for Inorganic and Applied Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany.