Issue 18, 2005
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Dalton Transactions

Coordination chemistry of buckybowls: from corannulene to a hemifullerene†

Marina A. Petrukhina*a  and  Lawrence T. Scottb  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA

b Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Abstract

This work highlights the progress made in coordination chemistry of transition-metal centers to open geodesic polyaromatic hydrocarbons that map onto the surface of C60, the family of compounds known as buckybowls or ‘fullerene fragments’. In particular, an overview of our recent gas-phase coordination studies of several bowl-shaped polyarenes toward the dinuclear metal complex, [Rh2(O2CCF3)4], is given. Selected buckybowls include corannulene (C20H10) and two of its derivatives, namely dibenzo[a,g]corannulene (C28H14) and 1,3,5,7,9-penta-tert-butylcorannulene (C40H50), as well as a hemifullerene (C30H12). This study has resulted in the first X-ray structural characterization of buckybowl coordination complexes and has revealed η2-rim coordination preferences of open geodesic polyarenes in rhodium(II) binding reactions.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B504317D
Article type
Perspective
Submitted
29 Mar 2005
Accepted
14 Jun 2005
First published
08 Jul 2005

Dalton Trans., 2005, 2969-2975

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