Faye L. Bowles

High yield synthesis of a new fullerene linker and its use in the formation of a linear coordination polymer by silver complexation

A new hexakis-fullerene adduct with two 4,5-diazafluorene groups strategically located at trans-1 positions to allow linear polymerization was selectively synthesized in very high yield. By reaction with Ag(triflate), a one dimensional metal-organic coordination polymer was obtained.

The Cycloaddition Reaction of Ih‐Sc3N@C80 with 2‐Amino‐4,5‐diisopropoxybenzoic Acid and Isoamyl Nitrite to Produce an Open‐Cage Metallofullerene

The unique structural and electronic properties of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) make them candidates for applications in nanoscience and biomedicine, and the functionalization of EMFs has attracted increasing attention. Various types of transformations, such as Diels–Alder reactions, 1,3dipolar cycloadditions, photochemical silylation, alkylation and carbene additions, Bingel reactions, and free-radical reactions have been reported to take place on the outer surface of EMFs. Icosahedral (Ih) Sc3N@C80, the most abundant EMF, can undergo most, but not all, of the abovementioned reactions. For example, the Bingel reaction of IhY3N@C80 [3a,c] and Ih-Gd3N@C80 [3b] has been reported to yield methanofullerene derivatives, but the same attempted cyclopropanation reaction with Ih-Sc3N@C80 was not successful. [3a]

Azide Addition to an Endohedral Metallofullerene: Formation of Azafulleroids of Sc3N@Ih-C80

The reaction of an organic azide with an endohedral metallofullerene has been investigated for the first time. Isomeric [5,6]- and [6,6]-azafulleroids can be obtained from the thermal reaction of Sc(3)N@I(h)-C(80) with 4-isopropoxyphenyl azide, while photoirradiation leads exclusively to the [6,6]-azafulleroid. An unprecedented thermal interconversion between the two isomeric azafulleroids has also been discovered.

Preparation and Crystallographic Characterization of C60{η1-Ru(CO)2(η5-C5H5)}2: A Locally Crowded Organometallic Fullerene Without the Usual η2-Bonding

The reaction of {(η(5)-C5H5)Ru(CO)2}2 with C60 in toluene solution under thermal or photolytic conditions produces C60{η(1)-Ru(CO)2(η(5)-C5H5)}2, whose structure has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The two Ru(CO)2(η(5)-C5H5) units are bound at the opposite ends of a hexagon on the fullerene surface and are closely intertwined.

Reshaping molecules through cocrystallization. Comparison of the structures of Hg{Co(CO)4}2 and Hg{Co(CO)4}2·C60·toluene

Cocrystallization of Hg{Co(CO)4}2 with C60 produces Hg{Co(CO)4}2·C60·toluene in which the geometry of the Hg{Co(CO)4}2 molecule is rearranged to fit between the remarkably well ordered fullerenes.