Straightforward supramolecular purification of C84 from a fullerene extract

Selective purification of fullerene mixtures via supramolecular encapsulation is an appealing strategy to circumvent the tedious HPLC chromatographic purification protocols. In this work, we utilize tetragonal prismatic nanocapsules of different cavity sizes and shapes to selectively encapsulate C84...

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Autores: Ubasart Clarà, Ernest, García Simón, Cristina, Pujals Crusat, Míriam, Asad, Karam, Chronakis, Nikos, Parella Coll, Teodor, Ribas Salamaña, Xavi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/19885
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/19885
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ful·lerens
Química supramolecular
Fullerenes
Supramolecular chemistry
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Sumario:Selective purification of fullerene mixtures via supramolecular encapsulation is an appealing strategy to circumvent the tedious HPLC chromatographic purification protocols. In this work, we utilize tetragonal prismatic nanocapsules of different cavity sizes and shapes to selectively encapsulate C84 from a mixture containing fullerenes ranging from C60 to C96 (fullerene extract), allowing the enrichment of the C84 content from 0.7% to 86%. Moreover, terphenyl-based extra-large nanocapsules were prepared for the first time that can strongly bind the dumbbell-shaped azafullerene dimer (C59N)2 as a guest. Competition experiments between (C59N)2 and C84 allowed the deduction of Ka > 1.0 × 107 M−1 for C84 in nanocapsule 6·(BArF)8. The preference of nanocapsule 7·(BArF)8 to bind C84-D2(22) among all IPR-isomers is also discussed