Exploring Reactivity and Regioselectivity of Dimerization of Paramagnetic Endohedral Metallofullerenes

Inorganic Chemistry
Lihong Wang, Yang Wang

Abstract

Due to their radical character, paramagnetic endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) are prone to dimerize. The dimerization exhibits high selectivity, i.e., only one or a few dimer structures, among a great number of possible choices of carbon cage forms and reaction sites, were observed in experiments. To unravel the determining factors of dimerization selectivity, we conducted a systematic computational study of the dimerization of a series of experimentally synthesized paramagnetic EMFs, representatively including M@C82 (M = Y, Sc, La), La@C72 with adjacent pentagons, and Y2@C80 in triplet state. By exploring many possible monomer structures and all possible dimerization sites for each monomer, we can explain the unique dimer structure of Y@C82 observed in the experiment. Thereby, we suggest two energetic criteria to determine whether a dimer structure can be formed under certain synthetic conditions: the monomer precursor should be sufficiently stable and the dimerization process should be sufficiently exergonic. Furthermore, we show that commonly used reactivity descriptors, based on different physical arguments such as spin density, geometric characteristics, aromaticity, and bond orders, all have poor or no correlation with...Continue Reading

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