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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

Experimental determination of the interaction potential between a helium atom and the interior surface of a C60 fullerene molecule
George Razvan Bacanu, Tanzeeha Jafari, Mohamed Aouane, Jyrki Rantaharju, Mark Walkey, Gabriela Hoffman, Anna Shugai, Urmas Nagel, Monica Jiménez-ruiz, Anthony J. Horsewill, Stéphane Rols, Toomas Rõõm, Richard J. Whitby & Malcolm H. Levitt, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(14), 144302
DOI: 10.1063/5.0066817
Type: article
Chemical shielding of H2O and HF encapsulated inside a C60 cage
Samuel P Jarvis, Hongqian Sang, Filipe Junqueira, Oliver Gordon, Jo E. A. Hodgkinson, Alex Saywell, Philipp Rahe, Salvatore Mamone, Simon Taylor, Adam Sweetman, Jeremy Leaf, David Duncan, Tien-Lin Lee, Pardeep K. Thakur, Gabriella Hoffman, Richard J. Whitby, Malcolm H. Levitt, Georg Held, Lev Kantorovich, Philip Moriarty & Robert G Jones, 2021, Communications Chemistry, 4(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00569-0
Type: article
A solid state intramolecular Wittig reaction enables efficient synthesis of endofullerenes including Ne@C60, 3He@C60 and HD@C60
Gabriela Hoffman, Mark C. Walkey, John Gräsvik, George R. Bacanu, Shamim Alom, Sally Bloodworth, Mark E. Light, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard John Whitby, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60(16), 8960-8966
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100817
Type: article
Infrared spectroscopy of an endohedral water in fullerene
A. Shugai, U. Nagel, Y. Murata, Yongjun Li, S. Mamone, A. Krachmalnicoff, S. Alom, R. J. Whitby, M. H. Levitt & T. Rõõm, 2021, Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(12), 124311
DOI: 10.1063/5.0047350
Type: article
Rotational coherence of encapsulated ortho and para water in fullerene-C60 revealed by time-domain terahertz spectroscopy
Sergey S. Zhukov, Vasileios Balos, Gabriela Hoffman, Shamim Alom, Mikhail Belyanchikov, Mehmet Nebioglu, Seulki Roh, Artem Pronin, George Razvan Bacanu, Pavel Abramov, Martin Wolf, Martin Dressel, Malcolm H. Levitt, Richard J. Whitby, Boris Gorshunov & Mohsen Sajadi, 2020, Scientific Reports, 10(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74972-3
Type: article