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Chemical shielding of H 2O and HF encapsulated inside a C 60 cage. Commun Chem 2021; 4:135. [PMID: 36697850 PMCID: PMC9814403 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00569-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Molecular surgery provides the opportunity to study relatively large molecules encapsulated within a fullerene cage. Here we determine the location of an H2O molecule isolated within an adsorbed buckminsterfullerene cage, and compare this to the intrafullerene position of HF. Using normal incidence X-ray standing wave (NIXSW) analysis, coupled with density functional theory and molecular dynamics simulations, we show that both H2O and HF are located at an off-centre position within the fullerene cage, caused by substantial intra-cage electrostatic fields generated by surface adsorption of the fullerene. The atomistic and electronic structure simulations also reveal significant internal rotational motion consistent with the NIXSW data. Despite this substantial intra-cage interaction, we find that neither HF or H2O contribute to the endofullerene frontier orbitals, confirming the chemical isolation of the encapsulated molecules. We also show that our experimental NIXSW measurements and theoretical data are best described by a mixed adsorption site model.
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Jaroš A, Bonab EF, Straka M, Foroutan-Nejad C. Fullerene-Based Switching Molecular Diodes Controlled by Oriented External Electric Fields. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:19644-19654. [PMID: 31744293 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Employing multiscale in silico modeling, we propose switching molecular diodes on the basis of endohedral fullerenes (fullerene switching diode, FSD), encapsulated with polar molecules of general type MX (M: metal, X: nonmetal) to be used for data storage and processing. Here, we demonstrate for MX@C70 systems that the relative orientation of enclosed MX with respect to a set of electrodes connected to the system can be controlled by application of oriented external electric field(s). We suggest systems with two- and four-terminal electrodes, in which the source and drain electrodes help the current to pass through the device and help the switching between the conductive states of FSD via applied voltage. The gate electrodes then assist the switching by effectively lowering the energy barrier between local minima via stabilizing the transition state of switching process if the applied voltage between the source and drain is insufficient to switch the MX inside the fullerene. Using nonequilibrium Green's function combined with density functional theory (DFT-NEGF) computations, we further show that conductivity of the studied MX@C70 systems depends on the relative orientation of MX inside the cage with respect to the electrodes. Therefore, the orientation of the MX inside C70 can be both enforced ("written") and retrieved ("read") by applied voltage. The studied systems thus behave like voltage-sensitive switching molecular diodes, which is reminiscent of a molecular memristor.
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Affiliation(s)
- Adam Jaroš
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Flemingovo nám. 2 , CZ-16610 Prague , Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science , Charles University , Albertov 2038/6 , CZ-12843 Prague 2 , Czech Republic
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- CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology , Masaryk University , Kamenice 5/A4 , CZ-62500 Brno , Czech Republic.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Masaryk University , Kamenice 5 , CZ-62500 Brno , Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Flemingovo nám. 2 , CZ-16610 Prague , Czech Republic
| | - Cina Foroutan-Nejad
- CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology , Masaryk University , Kamenice 5/A4 , CZ-62500 Brno , Czech Republic.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Masaryk University , Kamenice 5 , CZ-62500 Brno , Czech Republic.,National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science , Masaryk University , Kamenice 5 , CZ-62500 Brno , Czech Republic
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