Natalia B. Shustova (1464106)Igor V. Kuvychko (2227720)Robert D. Bolskar (2377267)Konrad Seppelt (1469203)Steven H. Strauss (1298514)Alexey A. Popov (1278525)Olga V. Boltalina (1298520)
Reaction of a mixture of insoluble higher fullerenes with CF<sub>3</sub>I at 500 °C produced a single abundant\nisomer of C<sub>74</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>, C<sub>76</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>, and C<sub>80</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>, two abundant isomers of C<sub>78</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub> and C<sub>82</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>, and\nan indeterminant number of isomers of C<sub>84</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>. Using a combination of <sup>19</sup>F NMR spectroscopy, DFT\ncalculations, and the structures and spectra of previously reported fullerene(CF<sub>3</sub>)<i><sub>n</sub></i> compounds, the most-probable structures of six of the seven isolated compounds were determined to be specific isomers of\n<i>C</i><sub>2</sub>-(C<sub>74</sub>-<i>D</i><sub>3</sub><i><sub>h</sub></i>)(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>, <i>C</i><i><sub>s</sub></i>-(C<sub>76</sub>-<i>T</i><i><sub>d</sub></i>(2))(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>), <i>C</i><sub>2</sub>-(C<sub>78</sub>-<i>D</i><sub>3</sub><i><sub>h</sub></i>(5))(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>), <i>C</i><i><sub>s</sub></i>-(C<sub>80</sub>-<i>C</i><sub>2</sub><i><sub>v</sub></i>(5))(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>), <i>C</i><sub>2</sub>-(C<sub>82</sub>-<i>C</i><sub>2</sub>(5))(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>), and <i>C</i><sub>2</sub>-(C<sub>82</sub>-<i>C</i><sub>2</sub>(3))(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub>) containing ribbons and/or loops of edge-sharing <i>para</i>-C<sub>6</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub> hexagons.\nThe seventh isolated compound is a <i>C</i><sub>1</sub> isomer of C<sub>78</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>12</sub> containing two such ribbons. This set of\ncompounds represents only the second reported isolable compound with the hollow C<sub>74</sub>-<i>D</i><sub>3</sub><i><sub>h</sub></i> cage and the\nfirst experimental evidence for the existence of the hollow fullerenes C<sub>76</sub>-<i>T</i><i><sub>d</sub></i>(2), C<sub>78</sub>-<i>D</i><sub>3</sub><i><sub>h</sub></i>(5), C<sub>80</sub>-<i>C</i><sub>2</sub><i><sub>v</sub></i>(5), and\nC<sub>82</sub>-<i>C</i><sub>2</sub>(5) in arc-discharge soots.
Pengyuan Yu (8986793)Lipiao Bao (1547935)Le Yang (345935)Debo Hao (8316846)Peng Jin (216301)Wangqiang Shen (2618326)Hongyun Fang (586276)Takeshi Akasaka (1402213)Xing Lu (1438414)
Shangfeng Yang (1438420)Chuanbao Chen (2108053)Mingzhi Jiao (1975789)Nadezhda B. Tamm (1483504)Maria A. Lanskikh (2207989)Erhard Kemnitz (1607959)Sergey I. Troyanov (1483507)
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Pilar Maldonado-Manso (2954907)Enrique R. Losilla (1682857)María Martínez-Lara (2450383)Miguel A. G. Aranda (1669075)Sebastián Bruque (2444932)Fatima E. Mouahid (2954910)Mohammed Zahir (2954904)