Vis-Near-IR Spectroscopic and Time-Dependent DFT Study of Reduced Singly Bonded C60 Species
Wei-Wei Yang1, Zong-Jun Li1, Shu-Hui Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.
Abstract:
Reduced fullerenes and fullerene derivatives exhibit intense absorptions in the vis-near-IR (vis-NIR) region. The absorptions are sensitive toward the addition pattern, number of addends, and oxidation state of the fullerene species and are used as an important benchmark for identifying anionic fullerene species. Similar absorptions are also shown for the reduced singly bonded C60 species, which are electronically different from reduced fullerene derivatives. However, much less work has been carried out on the vis-NIR spectroscopic study of the anionic singly bonded C60 species, likely due to the difficulty in controlled production of these species. Herein, we report the vis-NIR spectroscopic study of the mono- and dianions of the singly bonded C60 species (RC60(-), R(-)C60(-), and RC60(2-•)), which are selectively generated by controlled-potential bulk electrolysis (CPE) of the singly bonded C60 dimer and C60 oxazolino heterocycles. Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations were performed to rationalize the experimental results.
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