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Transition-metal atom/π-conjugated ring sandwich compounds are promising candidates for application in molecular spintronics. However, a great challenge that has significantly restrained the practical application of these sandwich compounds is their fabrication on a well-characterized solid-state substrate in a controllable manner. In this work, we suggested a two-step self-assemble way to fabricate the Eu-CnHn–2 compounds on the hydrogen-terminated Si(100) surface and theoretically studied the geometric structure and electronic and magnetic properties. Theoretical results indicate that the silicon surface is an ideal substrate to support such kind of metal atom-encapsulated sandwich compounds as the lattice distance of silicon (100) surface is close to the inter-ring distances of freestanding gas-phase sandwich compounds. On the basis of the spin-polarized density functional theory calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, we find that the silicon surface-supported Si-[EuCh]N, Si-[EuCOT]...