Magnetic carbon hybrid materials

The novelty of this type of organic functionalization is explained in terms of the wide number of different methanofullerene materials that can be reached due to the presence of esters moieties either properly functionalized carbon nucleophiles can be constructed that ultimately would add to C60, or additional chemical transformation to the addend group of an already synthesized methanofullerene could occur. Thus, theoretically, any chemical group carrying novel physical, electronic, magnetic, or mechanical properties that fulfills the appropriate requirements for the construction of novel organofullerene hybrid materials can be properly designed and, thus, attached on the fullerene skeleton. 

Ordered mesoporous carbon (CMK-3) has been used as a template to prepare magnetic nanocomposite materials. Wet impregnation of CMK-3 with iron nitrate solution, followed by evaporation of solvent, exposure to acetic add vapour and a sintering step, results in the formation of a hybrid magnetic material. The acetic acid will react with the iron cations dispersed... 

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