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Khamatgalimov AR, Gerasimova TP, Burganov TI, Kovalenko VI. Features of molecular structures of some IPR isomers of C96 fullerene. Struct Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-021-01824-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Tamm NB, Guan R, Yang S, Sidorov LN, Troyanov SI. Three Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Isomers of C 96 Fullerene Isolated as Trifluoromethyl Derivatives. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:17866-17869. [PMID: 33290050 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The family of experimentally confirmed isolated-pentagon-rule (IPR) isomers of C96 fullerene is extended by trifluoromethylation of a C96 fraction of the fullerene soot, high-performance liquid chromatography separation of CF3 derivatives, and a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of C96(CF3)n compounds with the use of synchrotron radiation. New cage isomers were revealed in C96(94)(CF3)18/20 and C96(182)(CF3)18 compounds, whereas isomer C96(181), previously known in the adduct with nickel porphyrinate, was confirmed in C96(181)(CF3)18/20 derivatives. Common and special features of the addition patterns of CF3 groups on C96 carbon cages are discussed in more detail. The investigated isomers belong to the most stable C2-C96(181) and slightly less stable C1-C96(94) and C2-C96(182) among the altogether 15 experimentally confirmed IPR isomers of C96 fullerene.
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- Nadezhda B Tamm
- Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- 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, Hefei 230026, China
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- 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, Hefei 230026, China
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- Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Tamm NB, Guan R, Yang S, Troyanov SI. New Isolated‐Pentagon‐Rule Isomers of Fullerene C
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Captured as Chloro Derivatives. Eur J Inorg Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202000235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Nadezhda B. Tamm
- Chemistry Department Moscow State University Leninskie Gory 119991 Moscow Russia
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 230026 Hefei China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 230026 Hefei China
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- Chemistry Department Moscow State University Leninskie Gory 119991 Moscow Russia
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Slanina Z, Uhlík F, Pan C, Akasaka T, Lu X, Adamowicz L. Computed stabilization for a giant fullerene endohedral: Y2C2@C1(1660)-C108. Chem Phys Lett 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2018.08.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Liu Y, Lin M, Zhao Y. Intersystem Crossing Rates of Isolated Fullerenes: Theoretical Calculations. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:1145-1152. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b12352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yuxiu Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry
for Energy Materials, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry
for Energy Materials, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry
for Energy Materials, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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Wang S, Yang S, Kemnitz E, Troyanov SI. New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule and Skeletally Transformed Isomers of C100
Fullerene Identified by Structure Elucidation of their Chloro Derivatives. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201511928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Song Wang
- 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; Hefei 230026 China
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- 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; Hefei 230026 China
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- Institute of Chemistry; Humboldt University Berlin; Brook-Taylor.-Str.2 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; Moscow State University; 119991 Moscow, Leninskie gory Russia
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Wang S, Yang S, Kemnitz E, Troyanov SI. New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule and Skeletally Transformed Isomers of C100 Fullerene Identified by Structure Elucidation of their Chloro Derivatives. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:3451-4. [PMID: 26848074 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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High-temperature chlorination of C100 fullerene followed by X-ray structure determination of the chloro derivatives enabled the identification of three isomers of C100 from the fullerene soot, specifically numbers 18, 425, and 417, which obey the isolated pentagon rule (IPR). Among them, isomers C1-C100 (425) and C2-C100 (18) afforded C1-C100 (425)Cl22 and C2-C100 (18)Cl28/30 compounds, respectively, which retain their IPR cage connectivities. In contrast, isomer C2v -C100 (417) gives Cs -C100 (417)Cl28 which undergoes a skeletal transformation by the loss of a C2 fragment, resulting in the formation of a nonclassical (NC) C1-C98 (NC)Cl26 with a heptagon in the carbon cage. Most probably, two nonclassical C1-C100 (NC)Cl18/22 chloro derivatives originate from the IPR isomer C1-C100 (382), although both C1-C100 (344) and even nonclassical C1-C100 (NC) can be also considered as the starting isomers.
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- Song Wang
- 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, Hefei, 230026, China
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- 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, Hefei, 230026, China.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University Berlin, Brook-Taylor.-Str.2, 12489, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Leninskie gory, Russia.
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Fritz MA, Kemnitz E, Troyanov SI. Capturing an unstable C100 fullerene as chloride, C100(1)Cl12, with a nanotubular carbon cage. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 50:14577-80. [PMID: 25308237 DOI: 10.1039/c4cc06825d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The chlorination of a HPLC C100 fraction afforded C100(1)Cl12 with an unprecedented nanotubular carbon cage of a highly unstable D5d-C100 fullerene.
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- Maria A Fritz
- Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Wang MQ, Zhou X, Tian WQ, Goddard JD. Electronic and optical properties of the five most stable C96 isomers. Chem Phys Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Yang S, Wei T, Wang S, Ioffe IN, Kemnitz E, Troyanov SI. Structures of chlorinated fullerenes, IPR C₉₆Cl₂₀ and non-classical C₉₄Cl₂₈ and C₉₂Cl₃₂: evidence of the existence of three new isomers of C₉₆. Chem Asian J 2014; 9:3102-5. [PMID: 25169656 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201402859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Chlorination of various HPLC fractions of C96 with a mixture of VCl4 and SbCl5 at 340-360 °C and single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of the products led to the identification of three new IPR isomers of C96. The C96(175) isomer forms a stable chloride, C96(175)Cl20, while chlorides of two other new isomers, C96(114) and C96(80), undergo cage shrinkage yielding C94(NC1)Cl28 and C96(NC2)Cl32 with non-classical (NC) cages. These two NC chlorides contain, respectively, one and two heptagons flanked by pairs of fused pentagons and are stabilized by chlorine attachment to the emerging pentagon-pentagon junctions. Thus, the number of the experimentally confirmed C96 isomers has reached nine, which corroborates the empirical rule that the C(6n) fullerenes exhibit particularly rich isomerism.
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- Shangfeng Yang
- 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).
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Yang S, Wei T, Kemnitz E, Troyanov SI. Four isomers of C96 fullerene structurally proven as C96Cl22 and C96Cl24. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:8239-42. [PMID: 22764124 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201201775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Shangfeng Yang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
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Yang S, Wei T, Kemnitz E, Troyanov SI. Four Isomers of C96 Fullerene Structurally Proven as C96Cl22 and C96Cl24. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201201775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Yang H, Jin H, Che Y, Hong B, Liu Z, Gharamaleki JA, Olmstead MM, Balch AL. Isolation of Four Isomers of C96and Crystallographic Characterization of NanotubularD3d(3)-C96and the Somewhat Flat-Sided SphereC2(181)-C96. Chemistry 2012; 18:2792-6. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Yang T, Zhao X, Xu Q, Zheng H, Wang WW, Li ST. Probing the role of encapsulated alkaline earth metal atoms in endohedral metallofullerenes M@C76 (M = Ca, Sr, and Ba) by first-principles calculations. Dalton Trans 2012; 41:5294-300. [DOI: 10.1039/c2dt12420c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zheng J, Zhao X, Dang J, Chen Y, Xu Q, Wang W. Density functional theory characterization of lanthanum nitride endohedral fullerene: La3N@C92. Chem Phys Lett 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2011.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Rodríguez-Fortea A, Irle S, Poblet JM. Fullerenes: formation, stability, and reactivity. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Rodríguez-Fortea A, Balch AL, Poblet JM. Endohedral metallofullerenes: a unique host–guest association. Chem Soc Rev 2011; 40:3551-63. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cs00225a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mercado BQ, Stuart MA, Mackey MA, Pickens JE, Confait BS, Stevenson S, Easterling ML, Valencia R, Rodríguez-Fortea A, Poblet JM, Olmstead MM, Balch AL. Sc2(mu2-O) trapped in a fullerene cage: the isolation and structural characterization of Sc2(mu2-O)@C(s)6-C82 and the relevance of the thermal and entropic effects in fullerene isomer selection. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:12098-105. [PMID: 20698534 DOI: 10.1021/ja104902e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The new endohedral fullerene, Sc(2)(mu(2)-O)@C(s)(6)-C(82), has been isolated from the carbon soot obtained by electric arc generation of fullerenes utilizing graphite rods doped with 90% Sc(2)O(3) and 10% Cu (w/w). Sc(2)(mu(2)-O)@C(s)(6)-C(82) has been characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, mass spectrometry, and UV/vis spectroscopy. Computational studies have shown that, among the nine isomers that follow the isolated pentagon rule (IPR) for C(82), cage 6 with C(s) symmetry is the most favorable to encapsulate the cluster at T > 1200 K. Sc(2)(mu(2)-O)@C(s)(6)-C(82) is the first example in which the relevance of the thermal and entropic contributions to the stability of the fullerene isomer has been clearly confirmed through the characterization of the X-ray crystal structure.
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- Brandon Q Mercado
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Remarkable diversity of carbon–carbon bonds: structures and properties of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene. Struct Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-010-9670-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Tamm N, Sidorov L, Kemnitz E, Troyanov S. Crystal Structures of C94(CF3)20and C96(C2F5)12Reveal the Cage Connectivities in C94(61) and C96(145) Fullerenes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009; 48:9102-4. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200904331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Tamm N, Sidorov L, Kemnitz E, Troyanov S. Kristallstrukturen von C94(CF3)20und C96(C2F5)12: Nachweis der Bindungsmuster in C94-(61)- und C96-(145)-Fullerenkäfigen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200904331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Performance of the semiempirical AM1, PM3, MNDO, and tight-binding methods in comparison with DFT method for the large fullerenes C116–C120. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.theochem.2007.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Xu L, Cai W, Shao X. Prediction of low-energy isomers of large fullerenes from C132 to C160. J Phys Chem A 2007; 110:9247-53. [PMID: 16854040 DOI: 10.1021/jp057181h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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To predict energetically favored isomers, we used a topological scheme as a prescreening tool to select candidate isomers for each fullerene from C(106) to C(160). Comparison with the PM3 and tight-binding (TB) potential calculated results and few published data for the low-energy isomers of C(106) to C(130) indicates that the prescreening approach is feasible. For each fullerene from C(132) up to C(160), the selected 1000 candidate isomers were further optimized by PM3 and TB potential. The analysis of the semiempirical PM3 and TB results of C(106) to C(160) provides some qualitative features of the large fullerenes. Furthermore, calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G*//B3LYP/3-21G level of theory were carried out on the top ten PM3 and TB low-energy isomers of C(132) to C(160) to accurately predict the stable isomers, and the HOMO-LUMO gap, the ionization energy, and electron affinity of the lowest-energy isomers were also investigated at the same level.
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- Lei Xu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, People's Republic of China
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Yang S, Dunsch L. Di- and tridysprosium endohedral metallofullerenes with cages from C94 to C100. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 45:1299-302. [PMID: 16416477 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200502417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Shangfeng Yang
- Group of Electrochemistry and Conducting Polymers, Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, 01171 Dresden, Germany.
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Cai W, Xu L, Shao N, Shao X, Guo Q. An efficient approach for theoretical study on the low-energy isomers of large fullerenes C90-C140. J Chem Phys 2007; 122:184318. [PMID: 15918715 DOI: 10.1063/1.1891706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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An approach that consists of a molecular mechanics method based on the second generation reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential and the more accurate semiempirical method PM3 (Parametric Method No. 3) was proposed to predict the energetically favored isomers of the fullerenes from C90 to C140 at the semiempirical level. All the 578,701 isolated-pentagon-rule isomers of fullerenes from C90 to C140 were enumerated from topological structures and systematically searched using an energy minimization method to select the best 100 low-energy isomers based on the REBO potential for each fullerene. Then these candidate isomers were further optimized by PM3 and ranked again to determine the top low-energy isomers. This approach was applied to calculate the energetically favored isomers of C90-C140. The results of C90-C120 are in good agreement with the published results by quantum-chemical methods. Furthermore, the top five low-energy isomers of C90-C120, as well as C122-C140 which have scarcely been systematically studied before, are also predicted with the approach. The analysis of the structures showed that the hexagon-neighbor rule is an important factor to the stability of C90-C140. The time cost for the systematical search based on the REBO potential was also discussed. It indicates that the approach proposed is efficient for predicting the energetically favored isomers of large fullerenes at the semiempirical level.
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- Wensheng Cai
- Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China.
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Yang S, Dunsch L. Endohedrale Di- und Tridysprosiumfullerene mit Käfigen von C94 bis C100. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200502417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The complete set of 271 classical fullerene isomers of C50 has been studied by full geometry optimizations at the SAM1, PM3, AM1, and MNDO quantum-chemical levels, and their lower energy structures have also been partially computed at the ab initio levels of theory. A D(5h) species, with the least number of pentagon adjacency, is predicted by all semiempirical methods and the HF/4-31G calculations as the lowest energy structure, but the B3LYP/6-31G* geometry optimizations favor a D3 structure (with the largest HOMO-LUMO gap and the second least number of adjacent pentagons) energetically lower (-2 kcal/mol) than the D(5h) isomer. To clarify the relative stabilities at elevated temperatures, the entropy contributions are taken into account on the basis of the Gibbs energy at the HF/4-31G level for the first time. The computed relative-stability interchanges show that the D3 isomer behaves more thermodynamically stable than the D(5h) species within a wide temperature interval related to fullerene formation. According to a newly reported experimental observation, the structural/energetic properties and relative stabilities of both critical isomers (D(5h) and D3) are analyzed along with the experimentally identified decachlorofullerene C50Cl10 of D(5h) symmetry. Some features of higher symmetry C50 nanotube-type isomers are also discussed.
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- Xiang Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, People's Republic of China.
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Zhao X, Goto H, Slanina Z. C100 IPR fullerenes: temperature-dependent relative stabilities based on the Gibbs function. Chem Phys 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2004.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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