Abstract
Abstract This account describes the redox behaviors of endohedral metallofullerenes having remarkable electron-accepting and -donating abilities, which accompany the transformation between their paramagnetic and diamagnetic states. A convenient method of isolating endohedral metallofullerene by means of selective reduction from carbon soot extracts is also developed. Successful isolation in large amount by utilizing this method allows examination of the construction of a supramolecular system based on endohedral metallofullerenes with azacrown ethers, unsaturated thiacrown ethers, and organic donor molecules. Consequently, endohedral metallofullerenes are revealed to form an inclusion complex with the crown compounds by electron transfer, and a stimuli-responsive reversible electron transfer system is constructed by using endohedral metallofullerenes and organic donors. These electron transfers proceed readily even in the ground state, which is a specific phenomenon for endohedral metallofullerenes.
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