Theoretical study on C 32 fullerenes and their endohedral complexes with noble gas atoms

Abstract

Non-isolated pentagon fullerenes with a series of special physical and chemical properties have potential applications in the fields of pharmaceutics, chemical catalysis and superconducting materials. On the basis of theoretical calculations, stabilities and aromaticities of pure and doped C 32 fullerene isomers are calculated at B3LYP/6-31+G(d) level systematically for the first time. Formation enthalpies and BSSE-corrected encapsulation energies of endohedral fullerenes are also studied at the same level of theory, the changes of corrected single point energy sequence are possibly useful in controlling the proportions of different isomers in chemical synthesis.