Abstract
The electrochemical oxidation and reduction of a series of complexes of platinum-group metals (Os, Ir, and Rh) with fullerene C60 with common formula C60[MLn] (MLn is the metal and the metal-bonded ligands) in the tetrahydrofuran solution are studied using the method of cyclic voltammetry. The effect of metal and ligands on the variations in the redox properties of complexes and stability of anions, which are formed in the reduction, is considered. It is shown that all complexes studied are reduced more difficultly than free fullerene, and the reduced forms of metallofullerenes are less stable as compared with free fullerene anions.
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