Simple Combustion Production and Characterization of Octahydro[60]fullerene with a Non-IPR C-60 Cage

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 132, 15093–15095, Publication Date : 2010

Author: Qun-Hong Weng, Qiao He, Ting Liu, Hui-Ying Huang, Jian-Hua Chen, Zhi-Yong Gao, Su-Yuan Xie,*, Xin Lu,*, Rong-Bin Huang, and Lan-Sun Zheng

Abstract：

For the first time an easier, operable combustion method is employed for the synthesis of non-IPR fullerene, and an octahydro[60)fullerene with a non-IPA C-60 cage (C-60 isomer C-#1809(60)) produced by combustion is isolated and characterized by MS, UV vis, IR, and NMR spectroscopies in combination with DFT calculations. This finding shows that, in addition to chlorine, hydrogen can be an ample cataloreactant for the production of non-IPR fullerene derivatives under such conditions as arc-burning and diffusion combustion.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ja108316e