New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Isomers of Fullerene C98 Captured as Chloro Derivatives

Fei Jin; Shangfeng Yang; Sergey I Troyanov

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00568

New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Isomers of Fullerene C₉₈ Captured as Chloro Derivatives

Inorg Chem. 2017 May 1;56(9):4780-4783. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00568. Epub 2017 Apr 17.

Authors

Fei Jin¹, Shangfeng Yang¹, Sergey I Troyanov²

Affiliations

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) , Hefei 230026, China.
² Chemistry Department, Moscow State University , Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia.

PMID: 28414221
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00568

Abstract

Fullerene C₉₈ possesses 259 isomers obeying the isolated pentagon rule (IPR), from which two, nos. 116 and 248, have been confirmed earlier as chloro derivatives. High-temperature chlorination of C₉₈-containing mixtures afforded crystals of several chloro derivatives, and their structure elucidation by X-ray crystallography revealed the presence of new isomers, nos. 107, 109, and 120, in the fullerene soot. Evidence for an isomer of no. 111 is also presented. In addition, a new chloride of the known isomer 248 has been isolated and structurally studied. The chlorination patterns of the chlorides are discussed in terms of the formation of isolated C═C bonds and aromatic substructures on the fullerene cages.