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Awaking N-hyperfine couplings in charged yttrium nitride endohedral fullerenes
Chong Zhao1, Taishan Wang, Yongjian Li
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun North First Street 2, 100190 Beijing, China. wangtais@iccas.ac.cn crwang@iccas.ac.cn.
Abstract:
The electron spin properties of endohedral metallofullerene molecules have broad potential applications in quantum information and magnetic induction systems due to the high stability and sensitivity. Herein, we synthesized a series of Y3N@C2n (n = 40-44) molecules and studied the hyperfine structures of their anion radicals via ESR measurements and DFT calculations. N-Hyperfine couplings were clearly observed in the ESR spectra of charged Y3N@C80 and Y3N@C86 anion radicals, which are not found in the other metallofullerenes. The ESR results revealed size-dependent spin distributions and hyperfine structures, which are sensitive to subtle changes in the carbon cage and the configuration of the yttrium nitride cluster. BOMD cluster trajectories simulations indicated that the Y3N cluster almost rotates freely in neutral Y3N@C80 but there is a certain degree of limitation in the Y3N@C80 anion.
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