Endofullerenes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Putting Nonmetals into Fullerenes

   • Martin Saunders, R. James Cross

   Pages 1-11

3. Group V Endohedral Fullerenes: N@C60, N@C70, and P@C60

   • B. Pietzak, A. Weidinger, K.-P. Dinse, A. Hirsch

   Pages 13-65

4. Collisional Production and Characterisation of Alkali Endohedral Fullerenes

   • Eleanor E. B. Campbell

   Pages 67-97

5. Structures and Electronic Properties of Endohedral Metallofullerenes; Theory and Experiment

   • Kaoru Kobayashi, Shigeru Nagase

   Pages 99-119

6. Trimetallic Nitride Template (TNT) Endohedral Metallofullerenes

   • H. C. Dorn, E. B. Iezzi, Steve Stevenson, A. L. Balch, J. C. Dunchamp

   Pages 121-131

7. Redox Properties and Purification of Endohedral Metallofullerenes

   • Michael D. Diener, Robert D. Bolskar, J. Michael Alford

   Pages 133-151

8. Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy for Metallofullerenes

   • Tatsuhisa Kato

   Pages 153-167

9. Raman and Infrared Spectra of Endohedral Fullerenes

   • Matthias Krause, Hans Kuzmany

   Pages 169-183

10. Structures of Fullerides and Endohedral Metallofullerenes Found by MEM/Rietveld Method

    • Masaki Takata, Eiji Nishibori, Makoto Sakata

    Pages 185-216

11. Lanthanoid Metallofullerenes

    • Koichi Kikuchi

    Pages 217-230

12. Chemical Properties of Endohedral Metallo-Fullerene and Its Ions

    • Takatsugu Wakahara, Takeshi Akasaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Shigeru Nagase

    Pages 231-251

13. Encapsulation of Atom into C60 Cage

    • Yoshihiro Kubozono

    Pages 253-272

14. Endohedral Metallofullerene in Gas Phase

    • Shigeo Maruyama

    Pages 273-293

15. Capturer-Captive Chemistry Endohedral Fullerenes as Representatives of Molecular Jailing

    • Tibor Braun

    Pages 295-297

16. Back Matter

    Pages 299-299

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To the eyes of a chemist, carbon is certainly one of the most fascinating elements of the periodic table. Basically, the electronic structure and atomic size of carbon enables this element to form a variety of bonds with other elements and, most importantly, with other carbon atoms as weIl. These unique features lead to the amazingly complicated molecular structures we encounter e. g. in life sciences and organic chemistry. Of course, the technical importance of carbon is enormou- but I don't want to carry too many coals to Newcastle. Prom the viewpoint of an astrophysicist or chemist, the significance of carbon lies in the fact that it is the most abundant condensable element in space. Born in the interior of stars, and from there expelled into the interstellar medium, it initiates the formation of simple and complex molecules and of nanoscopic grains. These in turn form huge clouds in space - the birthplace of new stars and planetary systems. The decisive role of carbon in interstellar chemistry is widely accepted and the search for more and more families of interstellar carbon-bearing molecules is a topic of ongoing research. The interdisciplinary aspect of carbon also concerns its various solid forms, in which C and the other closed-cage fullerenes are certainly some of the most popular 60 newcomers.

• Ion
• carbon
• fullerene
• fullerenes
• lanthanum
• metals
• nonmetal
• spectroscopy
• structure

• TARA Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

  Takeshi Akasaka

• Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan

  Shigeru Nagase

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