Two metal centers bridging two C60 cages as a wide passage for efficient interfullerene electronic interaction

Gaehang Lee; Youn-Jaung Cho; Bo Keun Park; Kwangyeol Lee; Joon T Park

doi:10.1021/ja037106p

Two metal centers bridging two C60 cages as a wide passage for efficient interfullerene electronic interaction

J Am Chem Soc. 2003 Nov 19;125(46):13920-1. doi: 10.1021/ja037106p.

Authors

Gaehang Lee¹, Youn-Jaung Cho, Bo Keun Park, Kwangyeol Lee, Joon T Park

Affiliation

¹ National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and School of Molecular Science (BK 21), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Korea.

PMID: 14611203
DOI: 10.1021/ja037106p

Abstract

The reaction of Ir4(CO)8(PMe3)4 with excess C60 in refluxing 1,2-dichlorobenzene, followed by treatment by CNR (R = CH2C6H5) at 70 degrees C, affords a fullerene-metal sandwich complex Ir4(CO)3(mu4-CH)(PMe3)2(mu-PMe2)(CNR)(mu-eta2,eta2-C60)(mu4-eta1,eta1,eta2,eta2-C60) (1), which exhibits an interesting structural feature of two metal atoms bridging the two C60 centers as well as the first example of a mu4-eta1,eta1,eta2,eta2-C60 bonding mode. Compound 1 has been characterized by NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and X-ray diffraction study. A cyclic voltammetry study reveals strong electronic communication between the two C60 centers in 1, which is due to the presence of a wide channel of two metal centers between the two C60 cages for efficient electronic interaction.