Trimetasphere

Trimetasphere carbon nanomaterials (TMS), also known as trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerenes, are a family of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMF). The first TMS adduct, a Diels-Alder cycloadduct of Sc₃N by C₈₀, was reported by Dorn et al. in 2002. It was not until 2005 that other derivatives were reported.^[1]^[2]^[3] The most abundant TMS consist of 80 carbon atoms encompassing and forming a complex with three metal atoms and a nitrogen atom (trimetallic nitride clusters, M₃N).

Examples

Examples of metals forming trimetallic nitride clusters include:^[4]

Scandium, Sc₃N
Yttrium, Y₃N
Erbium, Er₃N
Lutetium, Lu₃N
Gadolinium, Gd₃N

References

^ Cai et al. J. Chem. Commun. 2005, 3594-3596.
^ Cardona et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 10448-10453.
^ Cardona et al. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 5092-5097.
^ Lukoyanova et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 10423-10430

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[1] Cai et al. J. Chem. Commun. 2005, 3594-3596.

[2] Cardona et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 10448-10453.

[3] Cardona et al. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 5092-5097.

[4] Lukoyanova et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 10423-10430

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