Two Isomers of C60 F48 : An Indented Fullerene

Sergei I Troyanov; Pavel A Troshin; Olga V Boltalina; Ilya N Ioffe; Lev N Sidorov; Erhard Kemnitz

doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20010618)40:12<2285::AID-ANIE2285>3.0.CO;2-Y

Two Isomers of C₆₀ F₄₈ : An Indented Fullerene

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2001 Jun 18;40(12):2285-2287. doi: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010618)40:12<2285::AID-ANIE2285>3.0.CO;2-Y.

Authors

Sergei I Troyanov¹, Pavel A Troshin¹, Olga V Boltalina¹, Ilya N Ioffe¹, Lev N Sidorov¹, Erhard Kemnitz²

Affiliations

¹ Chemistry Department Moscow State University Moscow 119899 (Russia) Fax: (+7) 095-9391249.
² Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 10115 (Germany).

PMID: 29711847
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010618)40:12<2285::AID-ANIE2285>3.0.CO;2-Y

Abstract

Deflated buckyballs: The single-crystal structure of C₆₀ F₄₈ ⋅2 (mesitylene) revealed the presence of both D₃ and S₆ isomers in the same crystal. C(sp² )-C(sp² ) bonds (1.30 Å) are much shorter than C(sp³ )-C(sp³ ) bonds (1.54-1.63 Å). The C₆₀ cage is characterized by concave areas in the regions of six double bonds. Each double bond is effectively shielded by four F atoms, which accounts for the low reactivity of C₆₀ F₄₈ .

Keywords: fluorine; fullerenes; polyaddition; structure elucidation.