Author, as appears in the article.: Moreno-Vicente, Antonio; Alias-Rodriguez, Marc; Dunk, Paul W; de Graaf, Coen; Poblet, Josep M; Rodriguez-Fortea, Antonio
Department: Química Física i Inorgànica
URV's Author/s: Alías Rodríguez, Marc / De Graaf, Cornelis / Moreno Vicente, Antonio / Poblet Rius, Josep Maria / Rodríguez Fortea, Antonio
Keywords: Endohedral metallofullerenes heterofullerenes electronic-structure c-60 bond
Abstract: The smallest borafullerene U@C27B has been synthesized using a laser vaporization cluster source and detected as the most abundant species in the U@C2n−1B family. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that the U atom is placed just at the center of the cage interacting almost in the same way with all its atoms as if the cage were a 28-hapto ligand. Besides, the spin density is not at the metal, but distributed over the cage indicating that U is formally U(vi), even though it is not bonded to very electronegative atoms like O, F, N or Cl. All in all, we have synthesized a rather exotic radical that is another example of the distinctive host-guest chemistry that appears in endohedral metallofullerenes.
Thematic Areas: Inorganic chemistry Chemistry, inorganic & nuclear
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: coen.degraaf@urv.cat josepmaria.poblet@urv.cat antonio.rodriguezf@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-8114-6658 0000-0002-4533-0623 0000-0001-5884-5629
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/qi/d2qi02160a
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 10 (3): 908-914
APA: Moreno-Vicente, Antonio; Alias-Rodriguez, Marc; Dunk, Paul W; de Graaf, Coen; Poblet, Josep M; Rodriguez-Fortea, Antonio (2023). Highly oxidized U(vi) within the smallest fullerene: gas-phase synthesis and computational study of boron-doped U@C27B. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 10(3), 908-914. DOI: 10.1039/d2qi02160a
Article's DOI: 10.1039/d2qi02160a
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications