Abstract
Electrochemistry of hydrofullerene C60H36 was studied by cyclic voltammetry in THF and CH2Cl2 in the −47–14 °C temperature range. Hydrofullerene undergoes reversible one-electron reduction to form a radical anion in THF (E0=−3.18 V (Fc0/Fc+), Fc=ferrocene) and irreversible one-electron oxidation in CH2Cl2 (Epa=1.22 V (Fc0/Fc+)). The reduction potential was used to estimate electron affinity of hydrofullerene as EA=−0.33 eV. It was suggested that C60H36 is an isomer withT-symmetry in which 12 double bonds form four isolated benzenoid rings located in vertices of an imaginary inscribed tetrahedron on the molecular surface. For hydrofullerene, the “electrochemical gap” is an analog of the energy gap (HOMO−LUMO), equal to (EOx−ERed)=4.4 V, and indicates that C60H36 is a sufficiently “hard” molecule with a low reactivity in redox reactions.
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