Zigzag Sc2C2 Carbide Cluster inside a [88]Fullerene Cage with One Heptagon, Sc2C2@Cs(hept)-C88: A Kinetically Trapped Fullerene Formed by C2 Insertion?

A non-isolated pentagon rule metallic carbide clusterfullerene containing a heptagonal ring, Sc2C2@Cs(hept)-C88, was isolated from the raw soot obtained by electric arc vaporization of graphite rods packed with Sc2O3 and graphite powder under a helium atmosphere. The Sc2C2@Cs(hept)-C88 was purified by multistage high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), cocrystallized with Ni-(octaethylporphyrin), and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The diffraction data revealed a zigzag Sc2C2 unit inside an unprecedented Cs(hept)-C88 carbon cage containing 13 pentagons, 32 hexagons, and 1 heptagon. Calculations suggest that the observed nonclassical fullerene could be a kinetically trapped species derived from the recently reported Sc2C2@C2v(9)-C86 via a direct C2 insertion.

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