Synthesis and isolation of an all-carbon tetraanion; a discrete C₆₀^4- fulleride salt

Abstract

The highly reduced, all-carbon tetraanion, C₆₀^4-, earlier identified as a discrete ion in solution by electrochemical and spectroscopic methods, can be synthesized and isolated as an analytically pure, sodium cryptand salt.

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