Chemical Properties of Cage Carbons Dictated by the Encapsulated Metals

3 Chemical Properties of Cage Carbons Dictated by the Encapsulated Metals 

The chemical reactivity of EMFs strongly depends on the nature of the encaged metallic species because charge transfer takes place between them. A clear example is the different reactivity of Sc3N Cso and La2 C8o toward disilirane (1) [126]. In fact, La2 C8o is reactive both 

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