Preparation of open-cage fullerenes and incorporation of small molecules through their orifices.
Open-cage fullerenes can act as hosts for small molecules such as water, nitrogen, or hydrogen, forming endohedral fullerenes. Following a brief summary of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen insertion in the fullerene framework to form homofullerenes, methods of creating a hole in the fullerene surface are surveyed. Techniques of hole enlargement and the insertion of atoms or molecules through the orifice to form endohedral fullerenes are described. Finally, the possibility of subsequent closure of the hole is considered.
Gan
Liangbing
L
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China. gan@pku.edu.cn
Yang
Dazhi
D
Zhang
Qianyan
Q
Huang
Huan
H
D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D037741:Fullerenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry
D037741:Fullerenes; D002244:Carbon; D009584:Nitrogen; D010100:Oxygen