Synthesis and EPR Characterization of Exohedrally Perfluoroalkylated Paramagnetic Lanthanum Metallofullerenes: A Fluorous Phase Approach

摘要

A strategy to chemically derivatize the outer sphere of endohedral metallofullerenes by using a modern organic technique that utilizes a fluorous synthesis-partitioning approach has been developed. The newly synthesized materials were found to be paramagnetic species and were characterized by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR), laser desorption time-of-flight spectrometry (LD-TOF) and electronic absorption spectroscopy (UV-VIS-NIR). The systematic study of exohedrally derivatized endohedral metallofullerenes should ultimately provide technologically intriguing novel nano-materials.