One of the attractive properties of the hollow carbon clusters, known as fullerenes, is the
possibility to use them as robust containers for other species. Although an IUPAC …

Fullerenes have the characteristic of a hollow interior, and this unique feature triggers
intuitive inspiration to entrap atoms, ions or clusters inside the carbon cage in the form of …

Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs), a new class of hybrid molecules formed by
encapsulation of metallic species inside fullerene cages, exhibit unique properties that differ …

In this tutorial review taking X-ray crystallographically characterized compounds as a starting
point a walk is taken through the electronic and structural properties of endohedral …

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The discovery of the fullerenes, the first molecular allotropes of carbon, in the gas phase in
19851 and the equally remarkable discovery of their synthesis in macroscopic amounts by …

Novel organic solar cells have been prepared using quaternary self-organization of
porphyrin (donor) and fullerene (acceptor) units by clusterization with gold nanoparticles on …

The world of endohedral fullerenes was significantly enlarged over the past seven years by
the cluster fullerenes, which contain structures such as the M2C2 carbides and the M3N …

The isolated pentagon rule (IPR) is now widely accepted as a general rule for determining
the stability of all-carbon fullerene cages composed of hexagons and pentagons. Fullerenes …

Extensive semiempirical calculations of the hexaanions of IPR (isolated pentagon rule) and
non-IPR isomers of C68− C88 and IPR isomers of C90− C98 followed by DFT calculations of …