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Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 631 - 633, DOI: 10.1039/b914624e


The effect of atomic nitrogen on the C60 cage

Hidefumi Nikawa, Yasuyuki Araki, Zdenek Slanina, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Takeshi Akasaka, Takehiko Wada, Osamu Ito, Klaus-Peter Dinse, Masafumi Ata, Tatsuhisa Kato and Shigeru Nagase


We herein report the investigation of N@C60 exposed to laser flash excitation to exhibit the acceleration of the decay of (N@C60)* by the encased N atom.

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