Structural Determination of Metallofullerene Sc<sub>3</sub>C<sub>82</sub> Revisited:  A Surprising Finding

Yuko Iiduka, Takatsugu Wakahara, Tsukasa Nakahodo, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Akihiro Sakuraba, Yutaka Maeda, Takeshi Akasaka, Kenji Yoza, Ernst Horn, Tatsuhisa Kato,

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005 · 231 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

We report here the structural determination of the Sc3C82 molecule by 13C NMR spectroscopy and X-ray single-crystal structure analysis. From the present study, it is obvious that the structure of Sc3C82 is not Sc3@C82 but Sc3C2@C80.

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