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Separation and Selective Formation of Fullerene Adducts within an M$^{II}$$_{8}$L$_{6}$ Cage.

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Brenner, W 
Ronson, TK 
Nitschke, JR 

Abstract

The self-assembly of 4-fold-symmetric porphyrins with FeII or ZnII gave a new cubic MII8L6 cage framework with electron-deficient walls. This cage bound C60-indene or C60-anthracene bisadducts selectively, whereas unfunctionalized fullerenes and monoadducts were not encapsulated. The FeII8L6 cage also enabled the reaction of C60 and anthracene to yield the bisadducts selectively under conditions where no reaction was observed in the absence of the cage. These findings have relevance in the context of polymer solar cells, where C60 bisadducts have found use as electron acceptors, because these adducts currently require laborious and time-consuming syntheses and purification.

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3403 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, 34 Chemical Sciences

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Journal of the American Chemical Society

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Journal ISSN

0002-7863
1520-5126

Volume Title

139

Publisher

American Chemical Society
Sponsorship
European Research Council (259352)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K039520/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M008258/1)