Extended Data Fig. 10: Calculated near-horizontal thiophene configurations.
From: Atomic imaging of zeolite-confined single molecules by electron microscopy
a, Numbered T and O sites in ZSM-5 (MFI) framework. b–k, Calculated structural models of thiophene molecules with the lowest interaction energy when bonding with different acid sites. Here we only show these ten acid site positions, because for other positions thiophene will be adsorbed into sinusoidal channels that cannot be imaged from this [010] projection. The S atoms in thiophenes are just pointing to acid sites to identify the positions of these acid sites. The thiophene configurations in e and i, when setting the acid site at O8 and O19, are consistent with the imaged results in Fig. 4.
