A non-isolated pentagon rule C82 cage stabilized by a stretched Sc3N cluster

Min Guo; Xiaomeng Li; Yang-Rong Yao; Jiaxin Zhuang; Qingyu Meng; Yingjing Yan; Xinye Liu; Ning Chen

doi:10.1039/d1cc00328c

A non-isolated pentagon rule C₈₂ cage stabilized by a stretched Sc₃N cluster

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Apr 27;57(34):4150-4153. doi: 10.1039/d1cc00328c.

Authors

Min Guo¹, Xiaomeng Li¹, Yang-Rong Yao², Jiaxin Zhuang¹, Qingyu Meng¹, Yingjing Yan¹, Xinye Liu¹, Ning Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China. chenning@suda.edu.cn.
² Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA.

PMID: 33908444
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc00328c

Abstract

A novel cluster fullerene, Sc3N@Cs(39 663)-C82, has been synthesized and characterized. Crystallograpic charaterization unambiguously determines the non-IPR cage structure of Cs(39 663)-C82. Structural analyses further reveal that the Sc3N cluster is notably stretched to facilitate the interaction with the non-IPR fullerene cage.