Photochemical addition of silirane to endohedral metallofullerene: Electronic properties of carbosilylated Sc₃N@I_h-C₈₀

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

The photochemical reaction of Sc₃N@I_h-C₈₀ with silirane 1 produced the corresponding carbosilylated derivatives. The electrochemical studies of [5,6]-adducts indicate that carbosilylation is an effective method for tuning moderately the electronic characteristics of Sc₃N@I_h-C₈₀. Density functional theory calculations were also conducted to offer a theoretical basis for the electronic properties of carbosilylated derivatives.

Keywords:

• Endohedral metallofullerene
• silirane
• carbosilylation
• redox potential

Supplementary materials

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed on the publisher's website at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10426507.2014.965817.

Funding

This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 20108001, “pi-Space”), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (No. 20245006) and (B) (No. 24350019) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, the Strategic Japanese-Spanish Cooperative Program funded by JST and MICINN.