Trimetasphere

Trimetasphere carbon nanomaterials (TMS), also known as trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerenes, are a family of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMF). The first TMS adduct, a Diels-Alder cycloadduct of Sc₃N by C₈₀, was reported by Dorn et al. in 2002. It was not until 2005 that other derivatives were reported.^[1][2][3] The most abundant TMS consist of 80 carbon atoms encompassing and forming a complex with three metal atoms and a nitrogen atom (trimetallic nitride clusters, M₃N).

Examples

Examples of metals forming trimetallic nitride clusters include:^[4]

• Scandium, Sc₃N
• Yttrium, Y₃N
• Erbium, Er₃N
• Lutetium, Lu₃N
• Gadolinium, Gd₃N

See also

• Endohedral hydrogen fullerene

References

1. Cai et al. J. Chem. Commun. 2005, 3594-3596.
2. Cardona et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 10448-10453.
3. Cardona et al. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 5092-5097.
4. Lukoyanova et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 10423-10430