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 Jin - 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 …

Gd2@C79N: Isolation, Characterization, and Monoadduct Formation of a Very Stable Heterofullerene with a Magnetic Spin State of S = 15/2

W Fu, J Zhang, T Fuhrer, H Champion… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The dimetallic endohedral heterofullerene (EHF), Gd2@ C79N, was prepared and isolated
in a relatively high yield when compared with the earlier reported heterofullerene, Y2 …

Gadolinium-containing endohedral fullerenes: structures and function as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents

KB Ghiassi, MM Olmstead, AL Balch - Dalton Transactions, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Gadolinium-containing endohedral fullerenes: structures and function as magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) agents - Dalton Transactions (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C3DT53517G …

Carbon atoms trapped in cages: metal carbide clusterfullerenes

P Jin, C Tang, Z Chen - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Metal carbide clusterfullerenes (MCCFs), which trap two carbon atoms together with metal
atom (s) inside the fullerene cage, are a novel branch of endohedral metallofullerenes …

Single‐Molecule Magnets DyM2N@C80 and Dy2MN@C80 (M=Sc, Lu): The Impact of Diamagnetic Metals on Dy3+ Magnetic Anisotropy, Dy⋅⋅⋅Dy Coupling …

L Spree, C Schlesier, A Kostanyan… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The substitution of scandium in fullerene single‐molecule magnets (SMMs) DySc2N@ C80
and Dy2ScN@ C80 by lutetium has been studied to explore the influence of the diamagnetic …

Crystallographic identification of Eu@ C 2n (2 n= 88, 86 and 84): completing a transformation map for existing metallofullerenes

L Bao, P Yu, C Pan, W Shen, X Lu - Chemical Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Revealing the transformation routes among existing fullerene isomers is key to
understanding the formation mechanism of fullerenes which is still unclear now because of …

Th@ C 1 (11)-C 86: an actinide encapsulated in an unexpected C 86 fullerene cage

Y Wang, R Morales-Martínez, W Cai… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel actinide endohedral fullerene with an unexpected chiral cage, Th@ C1 (11)-C86,
was synthesized and characterized. DFT calculations suggest that this low symmetry cage …

Structure and single-molecule conductance of two endohedral metallofullerenes with large C 88 cage

W Li, F Qu, L Liu, Z Zhang, C Zheng, L Wang, C Wang… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Endohedral metallofullerenes are capable of holding peculiar metal clusters inside the
carbon cage. Additionally, these display many chemical and physical properties originating …

Entrapped Planar Trimetallic Carbide in a Fullerene Cage: Synthesis, Isolation, and Spectroscopic Studies of Lu3C2@C88

W Xu, TS Wang, JY Wu, YH Ma, JP Zheng… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We report the preparation, isolation, and spectroscopic characterizations of a novel
endofullerene Lu3C2@ C88, where a planar trimetallic carbide cluster Lu3C2 is …