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Redox Properties and Purification of Endohedral Metallofullerenes

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Endofullerenes

Part of the book series: Developments in Fullerene Science ((DFUL,volume 3))

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The chemical properties of endohedral metallofullerenes, including solubility and electrochemistry, are highly dependent on their electronic structures. An understanding of the different redox properties of distinct classes of metallofullerenes is emerging. These three classes, open-shell insoluble, closed-shell soluble and open-shell soluble endohedral metallofullerenes are discussed here along with electrochemical methods for purification of both soluble and insoluble classes of metallofullerenes.

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Diener, M.D., Bolskar, R.D., Alford, J.M. (2002). Redox Properties and Purification of Endohedral Metallofullerenes. In: Akasaka, T., Nagase, S. (eds) Endofullerenes. Developments in Fullerene Science, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9938-2_6

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