Russian-doll-type metal carbide endofullerene: synthesis, isolation, and characterization of Sc4C2@C80

Tai-Shan Wang; Ning Chen; Jun-Feng Xiang; Bao Li; Jing-Yi Wu; Wei Xu; Li Jiang; Kai Tan; Chun-Ying Shu; Xin Lu; Chun-Ru Wang

doi:10.1021/ja9077842

Russian-doll-type metal carbide endofullerene: synthesis, isolation, and characterization of Sc4C2@C80

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Nov 25;131(46):16646-7. doi: 10.1021/ja9077842.

Authors

Tai-Shan Wang¹, Ning Chen, Jun-Feng Xiang, Bao Li, Jing-Yi Wu, Wei Xu, Li Jiang, Kai Tan, Chun-Ying Shu, Xin Lu, Chun-Ru Wang

Affiliation

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Beijing 100080, China.

PMID: 19877678
DOI: 10.1021/ja9077842

Abstract

For the first time, we have produced the stable compound Sc(4)C(2)@C(80)-I(h) and characterized it as a metal carbide endofullerene by FTIR and Raman spectroscopies in combination with DFT calculations. Furthermore, DFT calculations have demonstrated that this molecule has a Russian-doll-type structure, C(2)@Sc(4)@C(80).