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 …

Fullerenes are carbon molecules that form polyhedral cages. Their bond structures are
exactly the planar cubic graphs that have only pentagon and hexagon faces. Strikingly, a …

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 …

Ever since the first experimental evidence of the existence of endohedral metallofullerenes
(EMFs) was obtained, the search for carbon cages with encapsulated metals and small …

Carbon-based nanomaterials have rapidly advanced over the last few decades. Fullerenes,
carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives, graphene oxide, nanodiamonds, and …

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 …