Trimetasphere carbon nanomaterials (TMS), also known as trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerenes, are a family of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMF). The first TMS adduct, a Diels–Alder cycloadduct of Sc3N by C80, was reported by Dorn et al. in 2002. It was not until 2005 that other derivatives were reported.[1][2][3] The most abundant TMS consist of 80 carbon atoms encompassing and forming a complex with three metal atoms and a nitrogen atom (trimetallic nitride clusters, M3N).

Examples

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Examples of metals forming trimetallic nitride clusters include:[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Cai et al. J. Chem. Commun. 2005, 3594–3596.
  2. ^ Cardona et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 10448–10453.
  3. ^ Cardona et al. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 5092–5097.
  4. ^ Lukoyanova et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 10423–10430