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  • Title: Solid-state 13C NMR investigations of 4,7-dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene: Buckminsterfullerene moieties.
    Author: Halling MD, Orendt AM, Strohmeier M, Solum MS, Tsefrikas VM, Hirao T, Scott LT, Pugmire RJ, Grant DM.
    Journal: Phys Chem Chem Phys; 2010 Jul 28; 12(28):7934-41. PubMed ID: 20512180.
    Abstract:
    4,7-Dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene (indenofluoranthene) are structural moieties related to Buckminsterfullerene (C(60)). As such, understanding their structural characteristics is of great interest because of the insight they shed upon C(60). Hence, solid-state NMR (ssNMR) and ab initio quantum mechanical calculations with Gaussian03 are used in order to understand and to better characterize the molecular conformation and properties of sumanene and indenofluoranthene. Sumanene has bowl shaped curvature in its natural conformation and indenofluoranthene is planar in its natural conformation, which led us to examine how altering the curvature affects the chemical shifts in relation to those of C(60). Using X-ray structures of both sumanene and indenofluoranthene as our starting model, we calculate the energy and chemical shielding tensors and compare these data with those collected utilizing the (13)C ssNMR FIREMAT experiment. We define curvature of sumanene and indenofluoranthene using the pi-orbital axis vector (POAV) pyramidalization angle (theta(p)). We calculate the energy of varying conformations of indenofluoranthene versus their theta(p) associated with each deformed conformation.
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