Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1997, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 127.

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Formation and Special Solubility of Endohedral Thulium Metallofullerenes

SUN Da-Yong, LIU Zi-Yang, GUO Xing-Hua, XU Wen-Guo, HAO Chun-Yan, LIU Shu-Ying   

  1. The Key Laboratory of Applied Spectroscopy, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academp of Sciences, Changchun, 130022
  • Received:1996-06-20 Online:1997-01-24 Published:1997-01-24

Abstract: Endohedral metallofullerenes Tm@C2n were synthesized with the carbon-arc dis-charge method of activating the Tm2O3-containing graphite anode in situ and back-burning technique.ToIuene soxhlet extraction, toluene and pyridine high-temperature and high-pres-sure extraction technique were employed for the effective extraction of Tm@C2n.The forma-tion of Tm@C2n was confirmed by LD-TOFand DEIMScharacterization.The mass spectro-metric results indicate that Tm@C2n.have a better solubility in toluene and worse solubility in pyridine than other metallofullerenes.

Key words: Fullerenes, Tm@C2n, Arc-discharge synthesis, Solubility

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