Reduced Fullerenes

Thus, the problem of enumeration and construction of projective fullerenes reduces simply to that for centrally symmetric conventional spherical fullerenes. The point symmetry groups that contain the inversion operation are Q, C, h, (m even), Dmh (m even), Dmd (m odd), 7, Oh, and 7. A spherical fullerene may belong to one of 28 point groups ([FoMa95]) of which eight appear in the previous list C,-, C2h, Dm, Da, D3d, Du, 7, and /. Clearly, a fullerene with v vertices can be centrally symmetric only if v is divisible by four as p6 must be even. After the minimal case v = 20, the first centrally symmetric fullerenes are at v = 32 (Dm) and v = 36 (Dm). 

VII. LITHIUM REDUCTION OF FULLERENES-REDUCED POLYCYCLIC BALLS... 

Silicone Polymers - Laser flash photolysis of poly(methylphenylsilylene) gives a transient absorption associated with exciton states while fullerene reduces bond scission in polysilanes. ... 

In light of oxidative processes, the high degree of resonance stabilization that arises from the maximally occupied HOMO (10 electrons), makes it an extremely difficult task to remove an electron from the HOMO level [31], Thus, [60]fullerene can be considered mostly an electronegative entity which is much more easily reduced than oxidized. 

Thus far the importance of carbon cluster chemistry has been in the discovery of new knowl edge Many scientists feel that the earliest industrial applications of the fullerenes will be based on their novel electrical properties Buckminsterfullerene is an insulator but has a high electron affinity and is a superconductor in its reduced form Nanotubes have aroused a great deal of interest for their electrical properties and as potential sources of carbon fibers of great strength... 

It is also important to point out that pure cobalt oxide, alone or finely dispersed in Si02 (i.e. Co-Si02, Co-Si02-l and Co-Si02-2 in Table 1), zeolite HY, fullerene (i.e. C q/C-,0 80/20) is at least as effective as the reduced oxides for the production of nanotubules in our experimental conditions. In fact, the catalysts studied in this work are also active if the hydrogenation step is not performed. This important point, is presently being investigated in our laboratory in order to elucidate the nature of the active catalyst (probably a metal carbide) for the production of nanotubules. 

Reduction of fullerenes to fullerides — Reversible electrochemical reduction of Ceo in anhydrous dimethylformamide/toluene mixtures at low temperatures leads to the air-sensitive coloured anions Qo" , ( = 1-6). The successive mid-point reduction potentials, 1/2, at -60°C are -0.82, -1.26, -1.82, -2.33, —2.89 and —3.34 V, respectively. Liquid NH3 solutions can also be used. " Ceo is thus a very strong oxidizing agent, its first reduction potential being at least 1 V more positive than those of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. C70 can also be reversibly reduced and various ions up to... 

The spectral dependence of the photoresponse of these bilayer heterojunction devices, illuminated from the 1TO side, is displayed in Figure 15-22. The onset of photocurrent at hv— 1.7 cV follows the absorption of the fullerene, indicating a symmetric hole transfer from the excited fullerene to the MEH-PPV. The minimum in the photocurrent at /iv=2.5 eV corresponds to the photon energy of maximum absorption of MEH-PPV. The MEH-PPV layer, therefore, acts as a filter, which reduces the number of photons reaching the MEH-PPV/C()0 interlace. Thus, the thickness of the MEH-PPV layer determines the anlibatic spectral be-... 

Redox molecules are particularly interesting for an electrochemical approach, because they offer addressable (functional) energy states in an electrochemically accessible potential window, which can be tuned upon polarization between oxidized and reduced states. The difference in the junction conductance of the oxidized and the reduced forms of redox molecules may span several orders of magnitude. Examples of functional molecules used in these studies include porphyrins [31,153], viologens [33, 34,110,114,154,155], aniline and thiophene oligomers [113, 146, 156, 157], metal-organic terpyridine complexes [46, 158-163], carotenes [164], nitro derivatives of OPE (OPV) [165, 166], ferrocene [150, 167, 168], perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide [141, 169, 170], tetrathia-fulvalenes [155], fullerene derivatives [171], redox-active proteins [109, 172-174], and hydroxyquinones [175]. 

Radical polymerization of maleic anhydride and fullerene was used to obtain a new material, the photodynamic properties of which have been studied in vitro and in vivo. HeLa and bone tumor cell growth were inhibited by treatment with fullerene and light, so the polymer was tested on mice affected by bone tumor. After injection and irradiation, tumor size and weight were reduced and the mouse survival time was extended (Jiang and Li, 2007). The photodynamic properties of a supramolecular cucurbit[8]uril-fullerene complex have been studied by the same authors (Jiang and Li, 2006) who attributed HeLa cell death mainly to the damage of membrane phosphohpids and proteins. 

Quick K, Dugan L (2004) Fullerene derivative (C ) functions as a SOD mimetic by reducing age-related increase in superoxide levels and prevention of age-related loss of mitochondrial membrane potential in brain. Free Rad. Biol. Med. 37 S163-S163. 

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