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Solid-state 13C NMR investigations of 4,7-dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene: Buckminsterfullerene moieties

4,7-Dihydro-1 H -tricyclopenta[ def , jkl , pqr ]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3- cd ]fluoranthene (indenofluoranthene) are structural moieties related to Buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ). As such, understanding their structural characteristics is of great interest because of the insight they s...

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Published in:Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP 2010-07, Vol.12 (28), p.7934-7941
Main Authors: Halling, Merrill D, Orendt, Anita M, Strohmeier, Mark, Solum, Mark S, Tsefrikas, Vikki M, Hirao, Toshikazu, Scott, Lawrence T, Pugmire, Ronald J, Grant, David M
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Summary:4,7-Dihydro-1 H -tricyclopenta[ def , jkl , pqr ]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3- cd ]fluoranthene (indenofluoranthene) are structural moieties related to Buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ). As such, understanding their structural characteristics is of great interest because of the insight they shed upon C 60 . Hence, solid-state NMR (ssNMR) and ab initio quantum mechanical calculations with Gaussian03 are used in order to understand and to better characterize the molecular conformation and properties of sumanene and indenofluoranthene. Sumanene has bowl shaped curvature in its natural conformation and indenofluoranthene is planar in its natural conformation, which led us to examine how altering the curvature affects the chemical shifts in relation to those of C 60 . Using X-ray structures of both sumanene and indenofluoranthene as our starting model, we calculate the energy and chemical shielding tensors and compare these data with those collected utilizing the 13 C ssNMR FIREMAT experiment. We define curvature of sumanene and indenofluoranthene using the π-orbital axis vector (POAV) pyramidalization angle ( p ). We calculate the energy of varying conformations of indenofluoranthene versus their p associated with each deformed conformation. Solid-state NMR and ab initio quantum mechanical calculations are used to analyze sumanene and indenofluoranthene.
ISSN:1463-9076
1463-9084
DOI:10.1039/c001903h