Physisorption and ortho–para conversion of molecular hydrogen on solid surfaces

K Fukutani, T Sugimoto - Progress in surface science, 2013 - Elsevier
Molecular hydrogen exists in nuclear-spin isomers of ortho and para species according to
the total nuclear spin. These species are correlated to the rotational states with even and …

The dipolar endofullerene HF@C60

A Krachmalnicoff, R Bounds, S Mamone, S Alom… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The cavity inside fullerenes provides a unique environment for the study of isolated atoms
and molecules. We report the encapsulation of hydrogen fluoride inside C60 using …

Spectroscopy of light-molecule endofullerenes

MH Levitt - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Molecular endofullerenes are supramolecular systems consisting of fullerene cages
encapsulating small molecules. Although most early examples consist of encapsulated …

First Synthesis and Characterization of CH4@C60

S Bloodworth, G Sitinova, S Alom… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The endohedral fullerene CH4@ C60, in which each C60 fullerene cage encapsulates a
single methane molecule, has been synthesized for the first time. Methane is the first organic …

Quantum rotation of ortho and para-water encapsulated in a fullerene cage

C Beduz, M Carravetta, JYC Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Inelastic neutron scattering, far-infrared spectroscopy, and cryogenic nuclear magnetic
resonance are used to investigate the quantized rotation and ortho–para conversion of …

Squeezing formaldehyde into C60 fullerene

VK Vyas, GR Bacanu, M Soundararajan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The cavity inside fullerene C60 provides a highly symmetric and inert environment for
housing atoms and small molecules. Here we report the encapsulation of formaldehyde …

Interstellar fullerene compounds and diffuse interstellar bands

A Omont - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016 - aanda.org
Recently, the presence of fullerenes in the interstellar medium (ISM) has been confirmed
and new findings suggest that these fullerenes may possibly form from polycyclic aromatic …

An optimised scalable synthesis of H 2 O@ C 60 and a new synthesis of H 2@ C 60

A Krachmalnicoff, MH Levitt, RJ Whitby - Chemical communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
New high-yielding synthetic routes to the small-molecule endofullerenes H2O@ C60, D2O@
C60 and H2@ C60 are described. The use of high temperatures and pressures for the …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental determination of the interaction potential between a helium atom and the interior surface of a C60 fullerene molecule

GR Bacanu, T Jafari, M Aouane, J Rantaharju… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The interactions between atoms and molecules may be described by a potential energy
function of the nuclear coordinates. Nonbonded interactions between neutral atoms or …

[HTML][HTML] Infrared spectroscopy of an endohedral water in fullerene

A Shugai, U Nagel, Y Murata, Y Li, S Mamone… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
An infrared absorption spectroscopy study of the endohedral water molecule in a solid
mixture of H 2 O@ C 60 and C 60 was carried out at liquid helium temperature. From the …