| Literature DB >> 29917307 |
Carles Fuertes-Espinosa1, Alejandra Gómez-Torres2, Roser Morales-Martínez3, Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea3, Cristina García-Simón1, Felipe Gándara4, Inhar Imaz5, Judith Juanhuix6, Daniel Maspoch5,7, Josep M Poblet3, Luis Echegoyen2, Xavi Ribas1.
Abstract
Supramolecular nanocapsule 1⋅(BArF)8 is able to sequentially and selectively entrap recently discovered U2 @C80 and unprecedented Sc2 CU@C80 , simply by soaking crystals of 1⋅(BArF)8 in a toluene solution of arc-produced soot. These species, selectively and stepwise absorbed by 1⋅(BArF)8 , are easily released, obtaining highly pure fractions of U2 @C80 and Sc2 CU@C80 in one step. Sc2 CU@C80 represents the first example of a mixed metal actinide-based endohedral metallofullerene (EMF). Remarkably, the host-guest studies revealed that 1⋅(BArF)8 is able to discriminate EMFs with the same carbon cage but with different encapsulated cluster and computational studies provide support for these observations.Entities:
Keywords: endohedral metallofullerenes; separation; supramolecular capsules; uranium
Year: 2018 PMID: 29917307 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201806140
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336