An endohedral titanium(III) in a clusterfullerene: putting a non-group-III metal nitride into the C(80)-I(h) fullerene cage

Shangfeng Yang; Chuanbao Chen; Alexey A Popov; Wenfeng Zhang; Fupin Liu; Lothar Dunsch

doi:10.1039/b911267g

An endohedral titanium(III) in a clusterfullerene: putting a non-group-III metal nitride into the C(80)-I(h) fullerene cage

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Nov 14:(42):6391-3. doi: 10.1039/b911267g. Epub 2009 Sep 24.

Authors

Shangfeng Yang¹, Chuanbao Chen, Alexey A Popov, Wenfeng Zhang, Fupin Liu, Lothar Dunsch

Affiliation

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei 230026, China. sfyang@ustc.edu.cn

PMID: 19841787
DOI: 10.1039/b911267g

Abstract

With the successful isolation of TiSc(2)N@C(80), the first Ti-containing nitride clusterfullerene (NCF), a non-group-III metal is stabilized in a NCF for the first time.