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Atomic and Molecular Endofullerenes: Spins in a box

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Endofullerenes
Connect with Malcolm

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Richard Whitby

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Synthesis, properties and application of atomic and molecular endofullerenes.
  • The use of flow chemistry for the rapid acquisition of mechanistic and process information.
  • The synthesis of polyaromatic molecules for optoelectronic applications.
Connect with Richard

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Magnetic Resonance

Our main focus is finding ways to extend the timescale over which magnetic resonance can be made.

Organic Chemistry, Synthesis, Catalysis

We develop environmentally sustainable approaches to chemical manufacture that minimise chemical waste, improve product velocity and reduce the need to isolate intermediates.

Research outputs

31P spin-lattice and singlet order relaxation mechanisms in pyrophosphate studied by isotopic substitution, field shuttling NMR, and molecular dynamics simulation
David E. Korenchan, Jiaqi Lu, Mohamed Sabba, Laurynas Dagys, Lynda J. Brown, Malcolm H. Levitt & Alexej Jerschow, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(39), 24239-24246
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03801c
Type: article
Synthesis of endohedral fullerenes by molecular surgery
Sally Bloodworth & Richard J. Whitby, 2022, Communications Chemistry, 5(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s42004-022-00738-9
Type: review
Synthesis and 83Kr NMR spectroscopy of Kr@C60
Gabriela Hoffman, George R. Bacanu, Elizabeth Marsden, Mark Walkey, Mohamed Sabba, Sally Bloodworth, Graham J. Tizzard, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard J. Whitby, 2022, Chemical Communications, 2022(80), 11284-11287
DOI: 10.1039/D2CC03398D
Type: article
Terahertz spectroscopy of the helium endofullerene He@C60
Tanzeeha Jafari, George Razvan Bacanu, Anna Shugai, Urmas Nagel, Mark Walkey, Gabriela Hoffman, Malcolm H. Levitt, Richard J. Whitby & Toomas Rõõm, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(17), 9943-9952
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00515h
Type: article
Weak nuclear spin singlet relaxation mechanisms revealed by experiment and computation’
Boris Kharkov, Xueyou Duan, Jyrki JS Rantaharju, Mohamed Sabba, Malcolm H. Levitt, James W. Canary & Alexej Jerschow, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(12), 7531-7538
DOI: 10.1039/D1CP05537B
Type: article