Th@C1(11)-C86: an actinide encapsulated in an unexpected C86 fullerene cage

Yaofeng Wang; Roser Morales-Martínez; Wenting Cai; Jiaxin Zhuang; Wei Yang; Luis Echegoyen; Josep M. Poblet; Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea; Ning Chen

doi:10.1039/C9CC04613E

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Th@C₁(11)-C₈₆: an actinide encapsulated in an unexpected C₈₆ fullerene cage†

Yaofeng Wang,‡^a Roser Morales-Martínez,

‡^b Wenting Cai,

‡^c Jiaxin Zhuang,

^a Wei Yang,^a Luis Echegoyen,

^c Josep M. Poblet,

^b Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea

*^b and Ning Chen

*^a

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^a Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, P. R. China
E-mail: chenning@suda.edu.cn

^b Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, c/Marcel·lí Domingo 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
E-mail: antonio.rodriguezf@urv.cat

^c Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA

Abstract

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 was favoured as a consequence of the strong interaction between Th and the cage, which makes the predictions by the ionic model less reliable for these endohedral mono-metallofullerenes.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC04613E
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 17 Jun 2019
Accepted: 04 Jul 2019
First published: 04 Jul 2019

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Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 9271-9274

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Th@C₁(11)-C₈₆: an actinide encapsulated in an unexpected C₈₆ fullerene cage

Y. Wang, R. Morales-Martínez, W. Cai, J. Zhuang, W. Yang, L. Echegoyen, J. M. Poblet, A. Rodríguez-Fortea and N. Chen, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 9271 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC04613E

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