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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 132, Issue 6, Pages 2064-2068Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja909614x
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We report here on the preparation and characterization of a fullerenium salt in the solid state, where the fullerene is in the 2+ oxidized state. To succeed in this long-standing challenge, we exploit the oxidizing power of one of the strongest Lewis acids, AsF5 The weak nucleophilic character of its conjugate base is essential in stabilizing the fullerene dication in a crystal lattice. High-resolution structural analysis of this compound, with the formula C-60(AsF6)(2), indicates that the highly reactive C-60(2+) units are arranged according to a novel 1D zigzag polymer structure The molecules are connected by an alternating sequence of four-membered carbon rings ([2 + 2] cycloaddition) and single C-C bonds The long awaited high-T-c superconductivity and magnetism, expected in a hole-doped C-60 compound, are replaced instead by a semiconducting behavior, quite probably originating from the reduced crystal and molecular symmetry upon polymerization. The small value of the energy gap (approximately 70 meV) suggests, nevertheless, the proximity of a metallic phase
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