C-H activation of terminal alkynes by tris-(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)boraterhodiumneopentylisocyanide: new metal-carbon bond strengths

C-H bond activation of terminal alkynes by [Tp'Rh(CNneopentyl)] (Tp' = hydridotris-(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borate) resulted in the formation of terminal C-H bond activation products Tp'Rh(CNneopentyl)(C≡CR)H (R = t-Bu, SiMe(3), hexyl, CF(3), p-MeOC(6)H(4), Ph, and p-CF(3)C(6)H(4)). A combination of kinetic selectivity determined in competition reactions and activation energy for reductive elimination has allowed for the calculation of relative Rh-C(alkynyl) bond strengths. The bond strengths of Rh-C(alkynyl) products are noticeably higher than those of Rh-C(aryl) and Rh-C(alkyl) analogues. The relationship between M-C and C-H bond strengths showed a linear correlation (slope R(M-C/H-C) = 1.32), and follows energy correlations previously established for unsubstituted sp(2) and sp(3) C-H bonds in aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons.     

Hydrogen adsorption on Pd- and Ru-doped C60 fullerene at an ambient temperature

Palladium- and ruthenium-doped C(60) fullerene compounds were synthesized by incipient wetness impregnation of C(60) fullerene with the corresponding metal acetylacetonate precursors. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging of the metal-doped C(60) fullerene samples showed different dispersion morphologies of palladium and ruthenium particles on the C(60) matrix. Raman spectra revealed a drastic decrease in peak intensity followed by disappearance of several bands indicating the distortion of the C(60) cage structure. The amorphous nature of the C(60) fullerene compounds was confirmed by the X-ray diffraction study. Hydrogen adsorption amount of 0.85 wt % and 0. 69 wt % on Pd-C(60) and Ru-C(60), respectively, as compared to 0.3 wt % on the pure C(60) fullerene were measured at 300 bar and 298 K. The enhancement in the hydrogen uptakes can be attributed to several factors, including adsorption of molecular H(2) on the defect sites, metallic hydride formation, spillover of hydrogen, and bond formation with atomic hydrogen with different active sites of carbon of host fullerene. The hydrogen adsorption isotherms are of type III and can be correlated by the Freundlich (for Ru-C(60)) and modified Oswin equations (for Pd-C(60) and pristine C(60)).     

Structure and properties of ionic fullerene complex Co(+)(dppe)2·(C60˙-)·(C6H4Cl2)2: distortion of the ordered fullerene cage of C60˙- radical anions

New ionic complex {Co(+)(dppe)(2)}·(C(60)˙(-))·(C(6)H(4)Cl(2))(2) (1) was obtained by the reduction of a Co(dppe)Br(2) and C(60) mixture by TDAE in o-dichlorobenzene followed by precipitation of crystals by hexane. Optical and EPR spectra of 1 indicated the formation of C(60)˙(-) radical anions and diamagnetic Co(+)(dppe)(2) cations. The structure of 1 solved at 100(2) K involves chains of C(60)˙(-) arranged along the lattice a-axis with a center-to-center distance of 10.271 ?. The chains are separated by bulky Co(+)(dppe)(2) cations and solvent molecules. All components of 1 are well ordered allowing the distortion of the C(60)˙(-) radical anion to be analyzed. An elongation of the C(60)˙(-) sphere by 0.0254(2) was found. It is essentially smaller than those in the salts (Cp*(2)Ni(+))·(C(60)˙(-))·CS(2) and (PPN(+))(2)·(C(60)(2-)) with greater distortion of the fullerene cage. The calculation of the electronic structure of fullerene by the extended Hückel method showed slight splitting of the C(60) LUMO, due to the distortion, by three levels. Two levels are located 180 and 710 cm(-1) higher than the ground level. The averaged 6-6 and 5-6 bonds in C(60)˙(-) with lengths of 1.397(2) and 1.449(2) ? are close to those determined for the C(60)(2-) dianions in (PPN(+))(2)·(C(60)(2-)), but are slightly longer and shorter, respectively, than the length of these bonds in neutral C(60).     

Bond orders and atomic properties of the highly deformed halogenated fullerenes C60F18 and C60Cl30 derived from their charge densities

The experimental charge densities of the halogenated C(60) fullerenes C(60)F(18) and C(60)Cl(30) were determined from high-resolution X-ray data sets measured with conventional Mo(Kalpha) radiation at 20 K for C(60)Cl(30) and with synchrotron radiation at 92 K for the fluorine compound. Bond topological and atomic properties were analyzed by using Bader's AIM theory. For the different C--C bonds, which vary in lengths between 1.35 and 1.70 A bond orders n between n=2 and significantly below n=1 were calculated from the bond topological properties at the bond critical points (BCP's). The low bond orders are seen for 5/6 bonds with each contributing carbon carrying a halogen atom. By integration over Bader's zero flux basins in the electron density gradient vector field atomic properties were also obtained. In contrast to free C(60), in which all carbon atoms have a uniform volume of 11 A(3) and zero charge, atomic volumes vary roughly between 5 and 10 A(3) in the halogenated compounds. Almost zero atomic charges are also found in the Cl derivative but a charge separation up to +/-0.8 e exists between C and F in C(60)F(18) due to the higher fluorine electronegativity, which is also seen in the electrostatic potential for which the electronegativity difference between carbon and fluorine, and the addition to one hemisphere of the fullerene cage leads to a strong potential gradient along the C(60)F(18) molecule. From the summation over all atomic volumes it follows that the halogen addition does not only lead to a dramatic distortion of the C(60) cage but also to a significant shrinkage of its volume.     

Generalized Stone-Wales transformation as the possible origin of ferromagnetism in polymeric C60: a density-functional theory study

Recently, there has been a proposal [Y.-H. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. B 68, 125420 (2003)] suggesting that ferromagnetic interactions in compressed and heated polymeric-C(60) solids could be due to the existence of triplet open cages resulting from successive generalized Stone-Wales transformations within the C(60) cage. Here, by performing B3LYP3-21G and B3LYP6-31G(d) optimizations, we carried out a systematic investigation of the thermodynamics and kinetics of the mechanism of generation of these open cages in their closed-shell singlet, open-shell singlet, and triplet states. We also computed the magnetic interactions induced by the open cages presenting a triplet ground state. Our results indicate that this mechanism is not appropriate to explain the ferromagnetism found in compressed and heated polymeric C(60) for the following reasons: (a) the formation of the only open cage presenting a triplet ground state requires overpassing a highest energy point of 318 kcal/mol, well above other competitive mechanisms reported in the literature; the triplet open cages formed are not stable against their transformation into a diamagnetic intermediate; (c) the magnetic interactions between two adjacent triplet open cages are antiferromagnetic.     

He+C60↔(He@C60)的反应势垒研究

The reaction barriers of (He+C60(He＠60)) have been calculated by the quantum-chemical method EHMO/ASED in the following four paths: (1) penetrate through the pentagon on the C60 cage; (2) penetrate through the hexagon on the C60 cage,(3) penetrate through the short bond; (4) penetrate through the long bond. Corresponding to each path, there are two choices: (a) while He penetrate C60 cage, the distances of the C’s which are the most adjacent to He are changed with a planar extension and a concerned window is formed; (b) while He penetrate C60 cage, the distances of the C’s which are the most adjacent to He are changed with a spherical extension and a concerned window is formed. The results are given in Figs. 1-2 and Tables 1-2. It is shown that the reaction through path(4) with choice (a) has the least reaction barrier, being optimum. At that case, a window of 9-membered ring is formed. Because the window extension of C6H6 is more free than that of C60, the barrier of He penetrating through C6H6 will be lower than that of He penetrating through C60.     

Intense near-infrared optical absorbing emerald green [60]fullerenes

Synthesis of emerald green fullerenes (EF) C60[C(CH3)(CO2Et)2]6 and C60[C(CH3)(CO2-t-Bu)2]6 was performed by using hexaanionic C60 intermediate (C60-6) as a reagent in one-pot reaction for attaching six alkyl ester addends on one C60 cage. These EF compounds exhibit intense optical absorption over 600-940 nm, the longest optical absorption of the C60 cage among many [60]fullerene derivatives synthesized.     

C60笼内内陷粒子的运动

研究C60笼内内陷粒子的量力力学运动, 导出运动能量与波函数, 以内陷CO分子为例做了计算, 解释了分子对微波的吸收现象。     

内嵌复合物X@C60中相互作用的变化规律与键本质

系统地研究了内嵌复合物Ｘ＠Ｃ６０（Ｘ＝第ＩＡ簇或第ＶＩＩＡ族元素）形成过程的能量变化,以及其中笼环境下Ｘ与Ｃ６０间相互作用的变化特征与键本质。结果表明：（１）Ｃ６０笼环境力场具有球对称性;（２）各种分解与总相互作用与内嵌原子的原子序数或原子半径呈现出规则的递变规律;（３）除Ｉ外,其余元素原子与Ｃ６０间的作用对各自复合物的稳定性都有正效应的较大贡献;（４）Ｘ在Ｃ６０笼环境中居心或偏心的稳定位置是各种     

Derivatization of fullerene dimer C120 by the Bingel reaction and a 3He NMR study of 3He@C120 monoadducts.

Cyclopropanation with diethyl bromomalonate and base (the Bingel reaction) was conducted on fullerene dimer C120 to give a mixture of "monoadducts" (45% yield) and "bisadducts" (< or =37% yield), while 18% of the C120 remained unchanged. The "monoadducts" were separated into five positional isomers, i.e., e(face), e(edge), trans-4, trans-3, and trans-2, by preparative HPLC. Assignments were made based on 1H (and 13C) NMR and confirmed by theoretical calculations of the addends' 1H NMR chemical shifts. The relative yields of these isomers were in fair agreement with those observed for the Bingel bisaddition of C60. The Bingel reaction was also carried out on the dimer C120 encapsulating 3He in one of the C60 cages. Each positional isomer of the "monoadduct" exhibited a pair of 3He NMR signals corresponding to an isomer with functionalization on the 3He-containing cage and the other isomer with functionalization on the empty cage. Using the 3He NMR spectroscopy, a pair of signals for the trans-1 isomer, which eluded detection by 1H NMR, were observed, in addition to pairs of signals for e(face), e(edge), trans-4, trans-3, and trans-2 isomers. The 3He NMR signals for isomers with functionalization on the 3He-containing cage were spread out over a 1.82-ppm range reflecting the direct effects of the addition pattern on the C60 surface. In contrast, the isomers with functionalization on the empty cage exhibited 3He NMR signals that appeared over a 0.14-ppm range, which was shown to be primarily due to changes in the diamagnetism of the functionalized cage based on theoretical calculations of 3He NMR chemical shifts for the model system in which the C60 cage encapsulating 3He was removed.     

Preparation and structures of [6,6]-open difluoromethylene[60]fullerenes: C60(CF2) and C60(CF2)2

Difluoromethylenation of C60 with thermally decomposed CF2ClCO2Na provides novel C60(CF2) and C60(CF2)2 compounds with unique [6,6]-open structures. A theoretical survey of CF2 derivatives of C60 demonstrates that carbon cage opening can be controlled via charging of the molecule and that the thermodynamically preferable structures combine the trend to form open isomers with the compactness of the addition motifs, which results in the formation of windows in the fullerene cage.     

电场作用下C60富勒烯二聚体分子的几何构型与失效

By the molecular mechanics/quantum mechanics method, the geometry distortion and configuration invalidity of dimmer C60fullerene (2C60) molecule in external electric field are simulated. The effect of the electric field, with three different directions, on geometry distortion, configuration invalidity, polarization charge distribution and dipole moment for 2C60 molecule is discussed systemtically. Further the geometry distortion and invalidity of 2C60 molecule are respectively compared with those of C60 fullerene molecule in electric field. By comparison, it is shown that geometry distortion and configuration invalidity behavior of 2C60 molecule are sensitive to the direction of electric field, when the directions of the applied electric field are parallel to the bridged C-C bonds. For 2C60molecule it is very easy for the configuration of 2C60 molecule to be invalidated and the invalidity mode is very particular as well.     

Isolation and characterization of unsymmetrical C(60)Me(5)O(3)H, a cage-opened bisepoxide ketone: tautomerism involving a fullerene cage bond

Bisepoxide ketone C(60)Me(5)O(3)H, possessing a nine-membered hole in the cage, has been isolated from the reaction of C(60)Cl(6) with methyllithium followed by hydrolysis. It is a tautomer of the recently isolated bisepoxide fullerenol, this tautomerism being the first example involving a cage C-C bond, and may be driven by cage strain. Like the fullerenol, the ketone gives a high C(58)(+) fragmentation ion intensity during EI mass spectrometry.     

Endohedral chemistry of C60-based fullerene cages

Fullerenes have unique chemistry owing to their cage structure, their richness in pi-electrons, and their large polarizabilities. They can trap atoms and small molecules to generate endohedral complexes as superconductors, drug carriers, molecular reactors, and ferroelectric materials. An important goal is to develop effective methods that can affect the behavior of the atoms and small molecules trapped inside the cage. In this paper, the quantum chemical density functional theory was employed to demonstrate that the stability and position of a guest molecule inside the C60 cage can be changed, and its orientation controlled, by modifying the C60 cage shell. The outside attachment of two hydrogen atoms to two adjacent carbon atoms located between two six-membered rings of the C60 cage affects the orientation of the LiF molecule inside and increases the stability of LiF inside the cage by 45%. In contrast, when 60 hydrogen atoms were attached to the outside surface of the C60 cage, thus transforming all C=C double bonds into single bonds, the stability of the LiF inside was reduced by 34%. If two adjacent carbon atoms were removed from C60, the stability of LiF inside this defect C60 was reduced by 41%.     

Tube and cage C(60)H(60): a comparison with C(60)F(60)

Tube C(60)H(60) (5) with fused five-membered rings is more stable than the cage isomer (1) with isolated five-membered rings. Introduction of endo C-H bonds into structure 5 results in further stabilization, but the most stable tube structure with four endo C-H bonds (7) is higher in energy than the most stable cage structure with ten endo C-H bonds (3) by 74.2 kcal/mol. A comprehensive comparison of C(60)H(60) with C(60)F(60) has been made.     

Evolution of lone pair of excess electrons inside molecular cages with the deformation of the cage in e2@C60F60 systems

For unusual e(2)@C(60)F(60)(I(h), D(6h), and D(5d)) cage structures with two excess electrons, it is reported that not only the lone pair in singlet state but also two single excess electrons in triplet state can be encapsulated inside the C(60)F(60) cages to form single molecular solvated dielectrons. The interesting relationship between the shape of the cage and the spin state of the system has revealed that ground states are singlet state for spherical shaped e(2)@C(60)F(60)(I(h)) and triplet states for short capsular shaped e(2)@C(60)F(60)(D(6h)) and long capsular shaped e(2)@C(60)F(60)(D(5d)), which shows a spin evolution from the singlet to triplet state with the deformation of the cage from spherical to capsular shape. For these excess electron systems, the three ground state structures have large vertical electron detachment energies (VDEs (I) of 1.720-2.283 eV and VDEs (II) of 3.959-5.288 eV), which shows their stabilities and suggests that the large C(60)F(60) cage is the efficient container of excess electrons.     

Photoelectron spectroscopy and electronic structures of fullerene oxides: C60Ox- (x = 1-3)

We report a photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) study on a series of fullerene oxides, C60Ox- (x = 1-3). The PES spectra reveal one isomer for C60O-, two isomers for C60O2, and multiple isomers for C60O3-. Compared to C60, the electronic structures of C60Ox are only slightly perturbed, resulting in similar anion photoelectron spectra. The electron affinity of C60Ox was observed to increase only marginally with the number of oxygen atoms, x, from 2.683 eV for C60, to 2.745 eV for C60O, and 2.785 eV/2.820 eV for C60O2 (two isomers). We also carried out theoretical calculations, which confirmed the observed isomers and showed that all the fullerene oxides are in the form of epoxide. The PES and theoretical calculations, as well as molecular orbital analysis, indicate that addition of oxygen atoms to the C60 cage only modifies the local carbon network and leave the rest of the fullerene cage largely intact geometrically and electronically.     

Structures and relative stability of medium- and large-sized silicon clusters. VI. Fullerene cage motifs for low-lying clusters Si(39), Si(40), Si(50), Si(60), Si(70), and Si(80)

We performed a constrained search, combined with density-functional theory optimization, of low-energy geometric structures of silicon clusters Si(39), Si(40), Si(50), Si(60), Si(70), and Si(80). We used fullerene cages as structural motifs to construct initial configurations of endohedral fullerene structures. For Si(39), we examined six endohedral fullerene structures using all six homolog C(34) fullerene isomers as cage motifs. We found that the Si(39) constructed based on the C(34)(C(s):2) cage motif results in a new leading candidate for the lowest-energy structure whose energy is appreciably lower than that of the previously reported leading candidate obtained based on unbiased searches (combined with tight-binding optimization). The C(34)(C(s):2) cage motif also leads to a new candidate for the lowest-energy structure of Si(40) whose energy is notably lower than that of the previously reported leading candidate with outer cage homolog to the C(34)(C(1):1). Low-lying structures of larger silicon clusters Si(50) and Si(60) are also obtained on the basis of preconstructed endohedral fullerene structures. For Si(50), Si(60), and Si(80), the obtained low-energy structures are all notably lower in energy than the lowest-energy silicon structures obtained based on an unbiased search with the empirical Stillinger-Weber potential of silicon. Additionally, we found that the binding energy per atom (or cohesive energy) increases typically >10 meV with addition of every ten Si atoms. This result may be used as an empirical criterion (or the minimal requirement) to identify low-lying silicon clusters with size larger than Si(50).     

外电场对N@C60, P@C60, As@C60分子结构和性质的影响

用量子力学方法研究了N@C60, P@C60, As@C60分子的几何和电子特征. 计算结果表明, 形成富勒烯包合物后, 碳笼只有微小的变形, 3种内包原子在笼中处于不同的位置, 碳笼与内包原子之间有明显的电荷转移和自旋轨道相互作用, 生成能分别为6.32, 70.88, -53.05 kJ/mol. 内包原子的3个单占据分子轨道(SOMO)能量变化很大, 并由于和碳笼作用而发生劈裂. 在外电场作用下, 分子的电子密度沿电场方向发生转移.分子的能量随外加电场的增强而降低. 分子轨道能级、能隙及SOMO轨道的能量和能级劈裂也发生了变化.     

C(60)-exTTF-C(60) Dumbbells: cooperative effects stemming from two C(60)s on the radical ion pair stabilization

[structure: see text] The presence of a second C(60) cage in C(60)-exTTF-C(60) triads [exTTF = 9,10-bis(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)-9,10-anthraquinone] has beneficial effects on the stabilization of the radical ion pair formed upon irradiation in comparison with the related C(60)-exTTF dyad. Although C(60)-exTTF-C(60) ensembles show no electronic interaction between the electroactive units in the ground state, their irradiation leads to C(60)(*)(-)-exTTF(*)(+)-C(60) species with lifetimes on the order of 600 ns in benzonitrile; these lifetimes are twice those determined for the analogous C(60)-exTTF dyad.