ABSTRACT

I. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 830 II.General Trends in the Redox Properties of Fullerenes and Related Compounds .................. 831

A.Cage Effects in Empty Fullerenes .................................................................................. 831 B.Cage and Encapsulated Species Effects in Endohedral Metallofullerenes .................... 831

1.Monometallofullerenes ............................................................................................ 832 2. Dimetallofullerenes.................................................................................................. 833 3.Clusterfullerenes ...................................................................................................... 835

C.InŽuence of Exohedral Derivatization ............................................................................ 839 1.Empty Fullerenes ..................................................................................................... 839 2.Endohedral Metallofullerenes Sharing the C80 (Ih) Cage ........................................840 3.M@C82 (C2v) Endohedral Metallofullerenes ............................................................ 841 4.Endohedral Metallofullerenes Incorporated in Donor-Acceptor Dyads ................. 843

D.Larger Carbon Nanostructures: Structure, Defects, and Impurity Effects ..................... 845 III. Preparation, Purišcation, and Derivatization of Fullerenes and Related Compounds

Based on Their Redox Properties ...........................................................................................846 A. Isolation of Kinetically Unstable Empty and Endohedral Fullerenes ............................846