Synthesis and chemistry of endohedral fullerenes

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1197-1207

  Liu, Guoquan ^a   Wu, Yimin ^a   Porfyrakis, Kyriakos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical functionalization; Endohedral fullerenes; Fullerenes; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; NITROGEN;

3-DIMENSIONAL; BUILDING BLOCKES; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; ELECTRON-DEFICIENT; ELECTRONIC CHEMICALS; ENDOHEDRAL FULLERENE; ENDOHEDRALS; FULLERENE SURFACES; OPTICAL-; SYMMETRICAL STRUCTURE;

FULLERENES;

EID: 79953303029     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138527211795203013     Document Type: Review

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