Structure of a Missing-Caged Metallofullerene: La2@C72
Journal of the American Chemical Society2003Vol. 125(26), pp. 7782–7783
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Abstract
The La2@C72 metallofullerene having the so-called "missing" C72 fullerene cage was structurally elucidated by using 13C NMR and 139La NMR spectroscopy. The obtained structure of La2@C72 does not satisfy fullerene's structural golden rule, that is, the isolated-pentagon rule. The structure is consistent with a non-IPR D2-C72 (#10611) cage structure where each La atom is situated close to one of the two-fused pentagons.
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