Two-Component Polymeric Materials of Fullerenes and the Transition Metal Complexes: A Bridge between Metal-Organic Frameworks and Conducting Polymers

Alan L Balch; Krzysztof Winkler

doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00553

Two-Component Polymeric Materials of Fullerenes and the Transition Metal Complexes: A Bridge between Metal-Organic Frameworks and Conducting Polymers

Chem Rev. 2016 Mar 23;116(6):3812-82. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00553. Epub 2016 Feb 22.

Authors

Alan L Balch¹, Krzysztof Winkler²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of California , Davis, California 95616, United States.
² Institute of Chemistry, University of Bialystok , Hurtowa 1, 15-399 Bialystok, Poland.

PMID: 26900870
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00553

Abstract

In this review, we examined the interactions of metal complexes and metal surfaces with fullerenes. That information has been related to the formation of redox-active materials produced by electrochemical reduction of solutions of various transition metal complexes and fullerene or fullerene adducts. These redox-active polymers are strongly bound to electrode surfaces and display electrochemical activity in solutions containing only supporting electrolyte. Extensive studies of the electrochemical behavior of these films have been used to characterize their properties and structure. The process that produces these poly-Pd(n)C60 and poly-Pt(n)C60 films can also produce composite materials that consist of metal nanoparticles interspersed with the poly-Pd(n)C60 and poly-Pt(n)C60 materials. The relationship between these redox-active films and conducting metal organic framework materials has been examined. These insoluble, redox-active polymers have potential utility for the adsorption of various gases, for the construction of capacitors, for sensing, for the preparation of metal-containing heterofullerenes, and for catalysis.