Endohedral fullerenes

AA Popov, S Yang, L Dunsch - Chemical reviews, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
One of the attractive properties of the hollow carbon clusters, known as fullerenes, is the
possibility to use them as robust containers for other species. Although an IUPAC …

When metal clusters meet carbon cages: endohedral clusterfullerenes

S Yang, T Wei, F ** - Chemical society reviews, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerenes have the characteristic of a hollow interior, and this unique feature triggers
intuitive inspiration to entrap atoms, ions or clusters inside the carbon cage in the form of …

Current status and future developments of endohedral metallofullerenes

X Lu, L Feng, T Akasaka, S Nagase - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs), a new class of hybrid molecules formed by
encapsulation of metallic species inside fullerene cages, exhibit unique properties that differ …

Endohedral metallofullerenes: a unique host–guest association

A Rodríguez-Fortea, AL Balch, JM Poblet - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In this tutorial review taking X-ray crystallographically characterized compounds as a starting
point a walk is taken through the electronic and structural properties of endohedral …

Structure, Stability, and Cluster-Cage Interactions in Nitride Clusterfullerenes M3N@C2n (M = Sc, Y; 2n = 68−98):  a Density Functional Theory Study

AA Popov, L Dunsch - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007‏ - ACS Publications
Extensive semiempirical calculations of the hexaanions of IPR (isolated pentagon rule) and
non-IPR isomers of C68− C88 and IPR isomers of C90− C98 followed by DFT calculations of …

Trimetallic nitride template endohedral metallofullerenes: discovery, structural characterization, reactivity, and applications

J Zhang, S Stevenson, HC Dorn - Accounts of chemical research, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
Shortly after the discovery of the carbon fullerene allotrope, C60, researchers recognized
that the hollow spheroidal shape could accommodate metal atoms, or clusters, which quickly …

Chemistry of endohedral metallofullerenes: the role of metals

X Lu, T Akasaka, S Nagase - Chemical Communications, 2011‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Recent breakthroughs achieved in the chemical functionalization of endohedral
metallofullerenes (EMFs), especially single crystallographic X-ray characterizations of their …

M2@C79N (M = Y, Tb): Isolation and Characterization of Stable Endohedral Metallofullerenes Exhibiting M−M Bonding Interactions inside Aza[80]fullerene Cages

T Zuo, L Xu, CM Beavers, MM Olmstead… - Journal of the …, 2008‏ - ACS Publications
Y2@ C79N and Tb2@ C79N have been prepared by conducting the Krätschmer− Huffman
electric-arc process under 20 Torr of N2 and 280 Torr of He with metal oxide-doped graphite …

Bonding in endohedral metallofullerenes as studied by quantum theory of atoms in molecules

AA Popov, L Dunsch - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metal–cage and intracluster bonding was studied in detail by quantum theory of atoms in
molecules (QTAIM) for the four major classes of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) …

Synthesis and characterization of non-isolated-pentagon-rule actinide endohedral metallofullerenes U@ C 1 (17418)-C76, U@ C 1 (28324)-C80, and Th@ C 1 …

W Cai, L Abella, J Zhuang, X Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
For the first time, actinide endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) with non-isolated-pentagon-
rule (non-IPR) carbon cages, U@ C80, Th@ C80, and U@ C76, have been successfully …