Mixed dysprosium-lanthanide nitride clusterfullerenes DyM<sub>2</sub>N@C<sub>80</sub>-<i>I</i><sub>h</sub>and Dy<sub>2</sub>MN@C<sub>80</sub>-<i>I</i><sub>h</sub>(M = Gd, Er, Tm, and Lu): synthesis, molecular structure, and quantum motion of the endohedral nitrogen atom

C. Schlesier, Fupin Liu, Vasilii Dubrovin, Lukas Spree, B. Büchner, Stanislav M. Avdoshenko, Alexey A. Popov

Nanoscale · 2019 · 26 citations · 88 references

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. The quantum nature of molecular vibrations becomes especially apparent when the size of the inversion barrier is comparable to the energy of the lowest vibrational levels.

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