Issue 28, 2010

Solid-state 13C NMR investigations of 4,7-dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene: Buckminsterfullerene moieties

Abstract

4,7-Dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene (indenofluoranthene) are structural moieties related to Buckminsterfullerene (C60). As such, understanding their structural characteristics is of great interest because of the insight they shed upon C60. Hence, solid-state NMR (ssNMR) and ab initio quantum mechanical calculations with Gaussian03 are used in order to understand and to better characterize the molecular conformation and properties of sumanene and indenofluoranthene. Sumanene has bowl shaped curvature in its natural conformation and indenofluoranthene is planar in its natural conformation, which led us to examine how altering the curvature affects the chemical shifts in relation to those of C60. Using X-ray structures of both sumanene and indenofluoranthene as our starting model, we calculate the energy and chemical shielding tensors and compare these data with those collected utilizing the 13C ssNMR FIREMAT experiment. We define curvature of sumanene and indenofluoranthene using the π-orbital axis vector (POAV) pyramidalization angle (θp). We calculate the energy of varying conformations of indenofluoranthene versus their θp associated with each deformed conformation.

Graphical abstract: Solid-state 13C NMR investigations of 4,7-dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene: Buckminsterfullerene moieties

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Jan 2010
Accepted
26 Apr 2010
First published
28 May 2010

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010,12, 7934-7941

Solid-state 13C NMR investigations of 4,7-dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene: Buckminsterfullerene moieties

M. D. Halling, A. M. Orendt, M. Strohmeier, M. S. Solum, V. M. Tsefrikas, T. Hirao, L. T. Scott, R. J. Pugmire and D. M. Grant, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 7934 DOI: 10.1039/C001903H

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