Issue 19, 2003
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Purification and optical spectroscopy of N@C60

Peter Jakes,a   Klaus-Peter Dinse,*a   Carola Meyer,b   Wolfgang Harneitb  and  Alois Weidingerb  

* Corresponding authors

a Physical Chemistry III, Darmstadt University of Technology, Petersenstrasse 20, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany
E-mail: dinse@chemie.tu-darmstadt.de

b Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Glienickerstrasse 100, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Using multi-step high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) it was possible to prepare a chromatographically pure sample of N@C60. Invoking EPR spectroscopy of solid samples prepared after each HPLC step, the increase of relative N@C60 concentration could unambiguously be determined. The UV/Vis spectrum of N@C60 is indistinguishable within experimental error from that of C60, confirming negligible coupling between nitrogen in its atomic ground state and C60 cage molecular wave functions. The observed large dipolar width of the EPR spectrum of the pure paramagnetic compound indicates weak spin exchange between neighboring paramagnetic centers which is further proof for a very small spin transfer from the encapsulated atom to the fullerene cage.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B308284A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Jul 2003
Accepted
18 Aug 2003
First published
08 Sep 2003

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2003,5, 4080-4083

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Purification and optical spectroscopy of N@C60

P. Jakes, K. Dinse, C. Meyer, W. Harneit and A. Weidinger, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2003, 5, 4080 DOI: 10.1039/B308284A

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