文摘
We report an efficient method for the preparation and purification of the Ih and the D5h isomers of Tm3N@C80. Following preparation in a Krant face="Arial Unicode MS,Lucida Sans Unicode,Code2000,GNU Unifont">̈nt>tschmer−Huffman electric-arc generator, the Tm3N@C80 isomers were obtained by a chemical separation process followed by a one-stage isomer selective chromatographic high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separation (pyrenyl, 5PYE column). The HPLC chromatographic retention behavior on a pentabromobenzyl (5PBB) column suggests a charge transfer of ~6 electrons; [M3N]6+@C806− and the chromatographic retention mechanisms of the Ih and the D5h isomers of Tm3N@C80 on both 5PBB and 5PYE columns are discussed. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction data demonstrate that the Tm3N cluster has a planar structure but represents a tight fit for trapping the Tm3N cluster inside the Ih- and the D5h-C80 cages. Specifically, the Tm atoms punch out the cage carbon atoms adjacent to them. The “punched out” effect can be demonstrated by cage radii and pyramidal angles at cage carbon atoms near the Tm atoms. The magnetic susceptibility (χT) for Tm3N@ Ih-C80 was found to exhibit Curie−Weiss behavior with C = 23.4 emu·K/mol, which is consistent with the calculated value for three uncoupled Tm3+ ions by considering the spin and orbital contributions with no quenching of the orbital angular momentum (L = 5, S = 1, and J = 6; Ccalcd = 23.3 emu·K/mol). The electrochemical measurements demonstrate that both the Ih and the D5h isomers of Tm3N@C80 have a large electrochemical gap.