C120On from C60Br24
TL;DR: In this paper, a microcrystalline mixture of fullerene dimer oxides (C120On; na 1, 2, 3,..) was extracted from decomposed C60Br24.
About: This article is published in Chemical Physics Letters.The article was published on 2001-01-26. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dimer & Cycloaddition.
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Abstract: CAPPED hollow carbon nanotubes1,2 can be modified into nanocomposite fibres by simultaneous opening of the caps (by heating in the presence of air and lead metal) and filling of the interior with an inorganic phase3. To generalize this approach, greater understanding is needed of the reaction mechanism between the tube caps and oxygen. Here we report that the oxidation of carbon nanotubes in air for short durations above about 700 °C results in the etching away of the tube caps and the thinning of tubes through layer-by-layer peeling of the outer layers, starting from the cap region. The oxidation reaction follows an Arrhenius-type relation with an activation energy barrier of about 225 kJ mol−1 in air. Heating of closed nanotubes with an oxide (Pb3O4) in an inert atmosphere lowers the activation barrier for the reaction and opening of the tubes occurs at lower temperatures. Contrary to intuition, however, open tubes are much more difficult to fill with inorganic materials than in the one-step filling of tubes reported previously3. But various other experiments might be possible in the inner nano-cavities of the open tubes such as studies of catalysis and of low-dimensional chemistry and physics.
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01 Aug 1995TL;DR: The fullerenes instead undergo a wide variety of reactions characteristic of alkenes as mentioned in this paper, and the many derivatives of C60 and C70 have been reported to offer new directions for organic chemistry.
Abstract: Initially envisaged as rather unreactive, aromatic-like molecules, the fullerenes instead undergo a wide variety of reactions characteristic of alkenes. The many derivatives of C60, and the few of C70, that have now been reported offer new directions for organic chemistry.
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...From the low-temperature FTIR study, it is evident that the C60 balls in these dimers are not free to rotate unlike the case of pristine C60 and C60 derivatives such as C60O [28] and C60Br24 [29] which also show the orientational ordering transition....
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...FTIR studies were performed with a Perkin Elmer Spectrum RXI FTIR spectrometer....
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TL;DR: The toluene extract of the fluffy carbon material produced by resistive heating of graphite contains a variety of molecules larger than C60 and C70 in a total amount of 3 to 4% by weight that are identified as higher fullerenes.
Abstract: The toluene extract of the fluffy carbon material produced by resistive heating of graphite contains a variety of molecules larger than C(60) and C(70) in a total amount of 3 to 4% by weight. Repeated chromatography of this material on neutral alumina has led to the isolation of stable solid samples of C(76), C(84), C(90), and C(94). The characterization, which includes mass spectrometry, (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance, electronic absorption (ultraviolet/visible) and vibrational (infrared) spectroscopy identifies these all-carbon molecules as higher fullerenes. In addition, C(70)O, a stable oxide, has been isolated that is structurally and electronically closely related to D5h-C(70). This compound forms during the resistive heating process and probably has an oxygen atom inserted between two carbon atoms on the convex external surface of the C(70) skeleton.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that photooxidation of C{sub 60} in benzene furnishes a single monooxide, C{ sub 60}O, as the sole isolable product.
Abstract: The isolation of C{sub 60} in preparatively useful quantities has stimulated intensive efforts to generate and characterize functional derivatives. Many reactions of C{sub 60} furnish complex, inseparable mixtures of products, and only a few discrete, monofunctional congeners have been described to date. We now report that photooxidation of C{sub 60} in benzene furnishes a single monooxide, C{sub 60}O, as the sole isolable product. Moreover, we have obtained the same species as a byproduct of the synthesis of C{sub 60}. Spectroscopic analysis strongly supports the epoxide structure. It is demonstrated that C{sub 60}O is efficiently converted to C{sub 60} in a 91% yield during chromatography of neutral alumina. The widespread use of alumina for purification of the fullerenes may explain why the fullerene oxide was not isolated before.
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