Icosidodecahedral Coordination-Saturated Cuprofullerene

Shun-Ze Zhan; Yu-Li Liu; Hong Cai; Ming-De Li; Qibin Huang; Xu-Dong Wang; Mian Li; Li Dang; Seik Weng Ng; Weigang Lu; Dan Li

doi:10.1002/anie.202312698

Icosidodecahedral Coordination-Saturated Cuprofullerene

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2023 Oct 23;62(43):e202312698. doi: 10.1002/anie.202312698. Epub 2023 Sep 18.

Authors

Shun-Ze Zhan^{1

2}, Yu-Li Liu¹, Hong Cai³, Ming-De Li¹, Qibin Huang¹, Xu-Dong Wang⁴, Mian Li¹, Li Dang¹, Seik Weng Ng⁵, Weigang Lu², Dan Li²

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Materials of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Shantou, 515063, P. R. China.
² College of Chemistry and Materials Science and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, P. R. China.
³ School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, 521041, P. R. China.
⁴ School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, P. R. China.
⁵ UCSI University, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, 56000, Malaysia.

PMID: 37682089
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202312698

Abstract

The first coordination-saturated buckyball with a C₆₀ molecule totally encased in an icosidodecahedral Cu₃₀ in a (μ₃₀ -(η² )₃₀ )-fashion, namely C₆₀ @Cu₃₀ @Cl₃₆ N₁₂ , has been successfully realized by a C₆₀ -templated assembly. The 48 outmost coordinating atoms (36Cl+12N) comprise a new simple polyhedron that is described by a ccf topology. Charge transfer from (Cu^I , Cl) to C₆₀ explains the expansion of the light absorption up to 700 nm, and accounts for an ultrafast photophysical process that underpins its high photothermal conversion efficiency. This work makes a giant step forward in exohedral metallofullerene (ExMF) chemistry.

Keywords: Coordination-Saturated Buckyball; Cuprofullerene; Icosidodecahedron.

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