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Construction of Ordered Solids and Polymers from Fullerene Components

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Applications of Organometallic Chemistry in the Preparation and Processing of Advanced Materials

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSE,volume 297))

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The fullerene family of highly symmetrical carbon molecules (C60, C70, etc.) offers considerable potential for the construction of new solids with novel properties some of which can be predicted, others of which can only be discovered. Since the revelation that these molecules, which were originally only available as exotic gas phase entities [1], can be made and chemically purified in macroscopic amounts [2,3]; there has been a flurry of interest in developing their chemistry. A number of significant aspects of the chemistry of the fullerenes have emerged and are of particular relevance to the chemistry developed in this chapter [4–6]. The shorter bonds at 6:6 ring junctions have olefinic reactivity. Multiple additions to these sites occur readily and frequently reversibly. Because of the high symmetry of these molecules, the distinction between reactive sites is low. Frequently, when multiple additions occur, it is difficult to control the level (or stoichiometry) of addition and the regiochemistry of the addition. Separation of pure derivatives of the fullerenes frequently requires extensive chromatography. Crystallization of the fullerenes and their simple derivatives produces solids in which the fullerenes exhibit orientational disorder. This greatly complicates studies of fullerenes and their derivatives by single crystal X-ray crystallography, a technique which is usually definitive for the characterization of simple organometallic compounds. The fullerenes readily undergo electron transfer reactions. For example, C60 undergoes six reversible reductions [7]. Certain fullerene salts, for example K3C60, exhibit superconductivity with remarkably high Tc values [8].

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Balch, A.L. (1995). Construction of Ordered Solids and Polymers from Fullerene Components. In: Harrod, J.F., Laine, R.M. (eds) Applications of Organometallic Chemistry in the Preparation and Processing of Advanced Materials. NATO ASI Series, vol 297. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0337-4_16

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