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  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Nanotechnology
  • Physical Chemistry

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  • Fullerene C60 offers a confined, symmetric environment suitable for encapsulating guest molecules.
  • Encapsulating molecules larger than the fullerene cavity presents significant challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To report the successful encapsulation of formaldehyde (CH2O) within the fullerene C60 cage.
  • To investigate the structural, electronic, and dynamic properties of the resulting CH2O@C60 complex.

Main Methods:

  • Molecular surgery techniques were employed for the encapsulation process.
  • Spectroscopic methods including infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) spectroscopy were used for characterization.
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was utilized to study spin-spin couplings and relaxation dynamics.

Main Results:

  • The supermolecular complex CH2O@C60 was successfully synthesized, despite formaldehyde's size exceeding the C60 cavity diameter.
  • Encapsulated formaldehyde exhibited a reduced HOMO-LUMO gap, observable nuclear spin-spin couplings with the fullerene cage, and rapid 13C spin-lattice relaxation.
  • Free rotation of formaldehyde along its axis at cryogenic temperatures was observed, alongside quantized translational modes indicative of a particle-in-a-box system.

Conclusions:

  • The study demonstrates the feasibility of encapsulating formaldehyde within C60 via molecular surgery, creating a strained yet functional supramolecular system.
  • The encapsulated formaldehyde displays unique quantum phenomena, including free rotation and quantized translational motion, influenced by the confining fullerene cage.
  • The CH2O@C60 complex serves as a model system for exploring quantum effects in confined molecular environments.