New Giant Fullerenes Identified as Chloro Derivatives: Isolated-Pentagon-Rule C108(1771)Cl12 and C106(1155)Cl24 as well as Nonclassical C104Cl24

Song Wang; Shangfeng Yang; Erhard Kemnitz; Sergey I Troyanov

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00809

New Giant Fullerenes Identified as Chloro Derivatives: Isolated-Pentagon-Rule C108(1771)Cl12 and C106(1155)Cl24 as well as Nonclassical C104Cl24

Inorg Chem. 2016 Jun 20;55(12):5741-3. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00809. Epub 2016 Jun 8.

Authors

Song Wang¹, Shangfeng Yang¹, Erhard Kemnitz², Sergey I Troyanov³

Affiliations

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) , Hefei 230026, China.
² Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin , Brook-Taylor.-Str.2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
³ Chemistry Department, Moscow State University , Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia.

PMID: 27276659
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00809

Abstract

High temperature chlorination of HPLC fractions of higher fullerenes followed by single crystal X-ray diffraction with the use of synchrotron radiation resulted in the structure determination of IPR C106(1155)Cl24 and IPR C108(1771)Cl12. C106(1155)Cl24 is cocrystallized with C104Cl24, a chloride of the nonclassical isomer of C104. The moderately stable isomer C106(1155) and the most stable C108(1771) represent so far the largest pristine fullerenes with known cages.