Synthesis separation characterization of partially reduced fullerenes

Conference · Fri Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:141263

Meier, M S; Selegue, J P; Vance, V K; Corbin, P L ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)

The Birch reduction of C{sub 60} is known to result in the formation of C{sub 60}H{sub 36}. The authors have investigated the reduction of C{sub 60} using much less powerful reducing conditions. Specifically, the authors have investigated partial hydrogenation and zinc/acid reductions under a variety of conditions. Regardless of the conditions, the same series of three products as determined by gel-permeation chromatography (GPC) was obtained. The authors have used preparative GPC to isolate these bands and have investigated their chromatographic behavior, absorption spectra, and mass spectrometry. In this talk the synthesis, separation, and characterization of these compounds will be presented, and discuss the possible structures of these partially reduced fullerenes.

• OSTI ID: 141263
• Report Number(s): CONF-930304--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
40 CHEMISTRY
CHEMICAL PREPARATION
FULLERENES
GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
REDUCTION
STRUCTURAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS