EPR study of the reaction of C60 with chlorine dioxide: experimental evidence for the formation of the C60 radical cation
Abstract
The interaction of chlorine dioxide with fullerene C60 affords a brown precipitate, and its EPR spectrum exhibits an asymmetric singlet signal (g = 2.0029, ΔHpp = 0.2 mT) tentatively assigned to the fullerene radical cation.