“…Chapter 5 presents data for the first observation of an odd-even effect in the heterogeneous electron transfer kinetics of solution-based redox couples at alkanethiolates on gold. In attempting to account for these data, these electron transfer theories will be useful; however, it is somewhat difficult to definitively determine the precise origins of this effect since we have also discovered an oddeven variation in thickness that may also cause such oscillations [23,152].…”