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La@C72 Having a Non-IPR Carbon Cage
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posted on 2006-11-08, 00:00 authored by Takatsugu Wakahara, Hidefumi Nikawa, Takashi Kikuchi, Tsukasa Nakahodo, G. M. Aminur Rahman, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Yutaka Maeda, Takeshi Akasaka, Kenji Yoza, Ernst Horn, Kazunori Yamamoto, Naomi Mizorogi, Zdenek Slanina, Shigeru NagaseWe show here that La@C72 has a non-IPR cage, unique electronic properties, and high reactivity by the spectroscopic and X-ray crystallographic analysis and the theoretical study. The isolation of La@C72 as a stable derivative might constitute an important stepping-stone on the way to isolation of these unknown metallofullerenes and open new material science of metallofullerenes.
