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Non-Chromatographic Separation of Endohedral Metallofullerenes by Utilizing Their Redox Properties

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Development of non-chromatographic separation for endohedral metallofullerenes has been put forward by many research groups with the goal of more straightforward and less expensive alternatives to HPLC . This chapter describes the progress in non-chromatographic separation approaches utilizing redox properties of EMFs, including electrolysis-assisted separation, separation with the use of redox-active solvents and redox reagents, or the use of complexation of fullerenes with Lewis acids .

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SS thanks the National Science Foundation for funding (Grants CHE-1151668 and CHE-1465173).

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Samoylova, N., Stevenson, S. (2017). Non-Chromatographic Separation of Endohedral Metallofullerenes by Utilizing Their Redox Properties. In: Popov, A. (eds) Endohedral Fullerenes: Electron Transfer and Spin. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47049-8_3

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