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(Invited) Entrapping a Group-VB Transition Metal, Vanadium, within an Endohedral Metallofullerene

Thursday, 2 June 2016: 14:00
Aqua 311 B (Hilton San Diego Bayfront)
S. Yang (University of Science and Technology of China)
So far the entrapped metals for the isolated endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) are primarily limited to rare earth metals, whereas except group-IVB metals whether or not it is possible to entrap other d-block transition metals remains unclear. In this talk, we report the successful entrapment of the group-VB transition metal vanadium (V) into fullerene cage, affording the heretofore unknown V-containing EMFs. Two novel V-containing EMFs — VxSc3-xN@C80 (x=1, 2) — were isolated, and their molecular structures were unambiguously determined by X-ray crystallography to be Ih(7)-C80 cage entrapping the planar VSc2N/V2ScN clusters.  VxSc3-xN@Ih(7)-C80 (x=1, 2) were further characterized by UV-vis-NIR and ESR spectroscopies and electrochemistry, revealing that the electronic and magnetic properties of VxSc3-xN@Ih(7)-C80 (x=1, 2) are tunable upon varying the number of entrapped V atoms (i.e., x value). The molecular structures and electronic properties of VxSc3-xN@Ih(7)-C80 (x=1, 2) were further compared with those of the reported analogous EMFs based on lanthanide metals and the adjacent group-IVB transition metal Ti, revealing the peculiarity of the group-VB transition metal V-based EMFs.