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Organic Approaches to Endohedral Metallofullerenes: Cracking Open or Zipping Up Carbon Shells?
Author(s) -
Rubin Yves
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.19970030705
Subject(s) - fullerene , graphite , metal , carbon fibers , materials science , cobalt , endohedral fullerene , coalescence (physics) , nanotechnology , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , computational chemistry , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , physics , engineering , composite material , composite number , astrobiology
We have been investigating the synthesis of endohedral metallofullerenes since we successfully opened an orifice on the framework of C 60 in the form of a cobalt complex having the metal sitting on top of the opening. A second approach aims at the synthesis of spherically‐shaped acetylenic macrocycles, which are expected to rearrange to endohedral metal complexes of fullerenes in a controlled process analogous to the gas‐phase coalescence of mono‐ and polycyclic polyynes during fullerene formation by the graphite evaporation method. Since the potential benefits from obtaining endohedral metal complexes of C 60 are enormous, both approaches are being actively pursued in our group.