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(Invited) The Effect of Nitrogen Source on the Production of Uranium Metallofullerenes Possessing Non-IPR Cages

Thursday, 17 May 2018: 09:00
Room 204 (Washington State Convention Center)
W. Cai (The University of Texas at El Paso), J. Murillo (Univ. of Texas at El Paso), M. A. G. Torres (The University of Texas at El Paso), N. Chen (Soochow University), and L. Echegoyen (The University of Texas at El Paso)
After our recent successful synthesis of the mono-uranium EMF species U@D3h-C74, U@C2(5)-C82, U@C2v(9)-C82, and U@C1(11)-C86 when using the gasses O2, SO2, and CO2 have been studied, the role of nitrogen source in accelerating the generation of mono-uranium EMFs possessing non-IPR cages will be discussed. Different nitrogen sources (such as N2 or NH3) have been used to produce these species (Figure 1). Besides the IPR species, the most abundant non-IPR species produced by N2 was U@C80, followed by U@C76. In addition, mono-uranium EMF U@C94 was obtained with the help of NH3 as well as U2N@C78. The extremely short retention time of U@C94 on Buckeyprep column indicates the possibility of a non-IPR C94 cage. The detailed synthesis, separation and structure characterizations will be presented and discussed.