Materials science fullerenes

Prato M 1997 [60]fullerene chemistry for materials science applications J. Mater. Chem. 7 1097-109... 

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Another exciting developing field is in material science. Chlorination and bromination of fullerenes (refs. 18,19) and solid state bromination of polyacetylenes (refs. 20,21) and of polybutadienes (ref. 22) are typical examples. 

Abstract The past two decades have profoundly changed the view that we have of elemental carbon. The discovery of the fullerenes, spherically-shaped carbon molecules, has permanently altered the dogma that carbon can only exist in its two stable natural allotropes, graphite and diamond. The preparation of molecular and polymeric acetylenic carbon allotropes, as well as carbon-rich nanometer-sized structures, has opened up new avenues in fundamental and technological research at the interface of chemistry and the materials sciences. This article outlines some fascinating perspectives for the organic synthesis of carbon allotropes and their chemistry. Cyclo[n]carbons are the first rationally designed molecular carbon allotropes, and... 

After different allotropic modifications of carbon nanostructures (fullerenes, tubules) have been discovered, a lot of papers dedicated to the investigations of such materials, for instance [9-15] were published, determined by the perspectives of their vast application in different fields of material science. 

The chemical modification of fullerenes has received considerable attention in the last decade in order to achieve new applications to material sciences [27]. Fuller-ene-bonded polysilane derivatives might be expected to show high conductivity since Ceo-doped polysilane is found to be a good photoconductor [28]. Therefore, a variety of silylated derivatives have been obtained to date, although the available methods are limited to the photoinduced addition of various silanes to Ceo-... 

The first edition of this book published in 1986 was well received by the chemistry and materials science communities and this resulted in the paperback edition published in 1989. We are most gratified by this warm reception to the book which has been found useful by students and teachers as well as practising solid state chemists and materials scientists. Since we first wrote the book, there have been many new developments in the various aspects of solid state chemistry covering synthesis, structure elucidation, properties, phenomena and reactivity. The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates created a great sensation and gave a boost to the study of solid state chemistry. Many new types of materials such as the fullerenes and carbon nanotubes have been discovered. We have now revised the book taking into account the new developments so that it reflects the present status of the subject adequately and points to new directions. 

In this edition, we have incorporated new material in all the chapters and updated references to the literature. New sections dealing with porous solids, fullerenes and related materials, metal nitrides, metal tellurides, molecular magnets and other organic materials have been added. Under preparative strategies, we have included new types of synthesis reported in the literature, specially those based on soft chemistry routes. We have a new section covering typical results from empirical theory and electron spectroscopy. There is a major section dealing with high-temperature oxide superconductors. We hope that this edition of the book will prove to be a useful text and reference work for all those interested in solid state chemistry and materials science. 

In conclusion, the book is a bridge among different disciplines ranging from chemistry to materials science to physics, astrophysics and topology with a unique final subject showing the state of the art of the research on fulleranes, the hydrogenated derivatives of fullerenes. 

As mentioned previously, photocycloaddition reactions are a useful method for obtaining fullerene derivatives fused directly to heterocycles. Such compounds have attracted much interest because they might have interesting properties, e.g., amino acid fullerene derivatives as biologically active compounds or pyrrolidino-fullerenes as key precursors for a great number of fullerenes donor-acceptor bridged dyads and triads. Fullerenes functionalized with silicon compounds are of great interest in materials science. The synthesis of these compounds will be described in this section. 

This trend has continued with the development of the physics, chemistry and materials science of the fullerenes. In this paper some of the experiments that have thrown light on the ability of the fullerenes to accept electrons are summarized and qualitative explanations for their extraordinary electron affinity are discussed. 

For further information on synthesis, properties, and applications of pyrro-lidinofullerenes, the chiral representatives of which were generally prepared and used as racemates, we refer to a recent review by Prato and Maggini.214 Fields in which many fullerene-fused pyrrolidines have been studied are biological and medicinal chemistry351 and, above all, advanced materials science.352,353 In the latter context, dyads and triads used for photoinduced charge separation between a fullerene acceptor moiety and electron donors like porphyrins, tetrathiafulvalenes, ferrocenes, or polyenes, are worth particular mentioning.354-356... 

An attractive feature of fullerenes is the interaction of their n electrons with fluorine, which has given a very broad array of fullerene fluorides as is described in the previous section. Electronic properties of these new fluorides based on the third allotrope of carbon are of great interest and importance from the view points of materials science and potential use. In fact, as will be described in the next section, electrochemical properties such as electromotive force and reduction potential strongly reflect the changes in the C6o electronic structure through fluorination. 

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