Fullertubes: A 30-Year Story of Prediction, Experimental Validation, and Applications for a Long-Missing Family of Soluble Carbon Molecules

S Stevenson, HC Dorn - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus During the last 30 years, theoretical scientists imagined segmental families of
monolayer carbon tubules with fullerene-based end-caps. These fullertube molecules would …

Endohedral fullerenes: Synthesis, isolation, mono-and bis-functionalization

MR Cerón, V Maffeis, S Stevenson… - Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Here we present a short overview of the contribution of our research group to the discovery,
functionalization and characterization of unprecedented endohedral fullerenes. We also …

Purification of uranium‐based endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) by selective supramolecular encapsulation and release

C Fuertes‐Espinosa, A Gómez‐Torres… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Supramolecular nanocapsule 1⋅(BArF) 8 is able to sequentially and selectively
entrap recently discovered U2@ C80 and unprecedented Sc2CU@ C80, simply by soaking …

Fullertubes: cylindrical carbon with half-fullerene end-caps and tubular graphene belts, their chemical enrichment, crystallography of pristine C90-D 5h (1) and C100 …

RM Koenig, HR Tian, TL Seeler… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report a chemical separation method to isolate fullertubes: a new and soluble allotrope
of carbon whose structure merges nanotube, graphene, and fullerene subunits. Fullertubes …

Ho2O@C74: Ho2O Cluster Expands within a Small Non-IPR Fullerene Cage of C2(13333)-C74

A Liu, M Nie, Y Hao, Y Yang, T Wang… - Inorganic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Steering the cluster configuration inside a fullerene cage has been one of most interesting
topics in the field of fullerenes, since the physical property of a cluster fullerene may be …

A structural and spectroscopic overview of molecular lanthanide complexes with fluorinated O-donor ligands

AS Hyre, LH Doerrer - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The lanthanide elements are prevalent in modern electronics, contrast agents, and
phosphors. Precursors for luminescent materials frequently use fluorinated ligands to …

Isolation and Crystallographic Characterization of Lu3N@C2n (2n=80–88): Cage Selection by Cluster Size

WQ Shen, LP Bao, SF Hu, XJ Gao… - … A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The small Sc3N cluster has only been found in such small cages as C2n (2n= 68, 78, 80,
82), whereas the large M3N (M= Y, Gd, Tb, Tm) clusters choose those larger cages C2n …

Metal ion size and the pyramidalization of trimetallic nitride units inside a fullerene cage: Comparisons of the crystal structures of M3N@ Ih-C80 (M= Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er …

MM Olmstead, T Zuo, HC Dorn, T Li, AL Balch - Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
The structures of Er 3 N@ I hC 80 and Ho 3 N@ I hC 80 have been determined by single
crystal X-ray diffraction in the cocrystals Er 3 N@ I hC 80· Ni (OEP)· 2benzene and Ho 3 N …

Structure and single-molecule conductance of two endohedral metallofullerenes with large C 88 cage

W Li, F Qu, L Liu, Z Zhang, C Zheng, L Wang, C Wang… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Endohedral metallofullerenes are capable of holding peculiar metal clusters inside the
carbon cage. Additionally, these display many chemical and physical properties originating …

A Copper‐based Supramolecular Nanocapsule that Enables Straightforward Purification of Sc3N‐based Endohedral Metallofullerene Soots

C Fuertes‐Espinosa, C García‐Simón… - … A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A self‐assembled CuII‐based nanocapsule enables efficient and straightforward isolation of
Sc3N@ C80 from arc‐processed raw soot. The newly designed CuII‐based supramolecular …