Bond distortion and electronic state of C60 dimer by two electrons uptake

  • Kee Hag Lee
  • , Han Myoung Lee
  • , Wang Ro Lee
  • , Sung Soo Park
  • , Hong Lee
  • , T. Y. Park
  • , X. Sun
  • , K. Nasu

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Abstract

In order to study the electron doping effect on the neutral C60 dimer with the linkage through a [2+2] cycloaddition, structures of the neutral dimer and its dianion have been energetically optimized by the semiempirical Hamiltonian PM-3. The (C60)22- has turned out to have a slightly squashed and equatorially swollen geometry in each C60 compared to the structure of the (C60)2. But both have the same symmetry of D2h. The doped electrons in the dianion will be largely on an equator zone of each C60 ball. The intermolecular center-to-center distance is longer by about 0.03 angstrom in the C60 dimer dianion than in its neutral case.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2389-2390
Number of pages2
JournalSynthetic Metals
Volume86
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997.02.28

Keywords

  • Fullerenes and derivatives
  • Semi-empirical models and model calculations

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