Crystallographic evidence and spin activation for the Russian-doll-type metallofullerene Sc4C2@C80

Mingzhe Nie; Haibing Meng; Chong Zhao; Yuxi Lu; Jie Zhang; Lai Feng; Chunru Wang; Taishan Wang

doi:10.1039/D0CC04496B

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Crystallographic evidence and spin activation for the Russian-doll-type metallofullerene Sc₄C₂@C₈₀†

Mingzhe Nie,

‡^ab Haibing Meng,

‡^ab Chong Zhao,

^ab Yuxi Lu,^ab Jie Zhang,^a Lai Feng,

*^c Chunru Wang

^a and Taishan Wang

*^a

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* Corresponding authors

^a Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
E-mail: wangtais@iccas.ac.cn

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

^c Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS, College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
E-mail: fenglai@suda.edu.cn

Abstract

We report unambiguous crystallographic evidence for the Russian-doll-type metallofullerene Sc₄C₂@I_h-C₈₀. ⁴⁵Sc NMR further demonstrates the tetrahedron arrangement of the Sc₄C₂ cluster. Moreover, the electrochemical test reveals the stable oxidation state of Sc₄C₂@C₈₀. Hence, the Sc₄C₂@C₈₀ cation radical was studied by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. These results provide better understanding for the previously less-explored Sc₄C₂@C₈₀.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04496B
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 30 Jun 2020
Accepted: 05 Aug 2020
First published: 06 Aug 2020

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Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 10879-10882

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Crystallographic evidence and spin activation for the Russian-doll-type metallofullerene Sc₄C₂@C₈₀

M. Nie, H. Meng, C. Zhao, Y. Lu, J. Zhang, L. Feng, C. Wang and T. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 10879 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC04496B

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