Ov. Boltalina et al., THERMOCHEMISTRY OF THE GAS-PHASE REACTIONS OF FLUOROFULLERENE ANIONS, The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory, 101(14), 1997, pp. 2574-2577
The ion-molecule equilibrium method has been applied to studies of the
gas phase fluorine exchange reactions between fullerene anions and me
tal fluoride anions. This has yielded the first quantitative determina
tion of the absolute values of Gibbs energies for addition of fluorine
to the anions of higher fullerenes C-70+2n(-) (n = 0, 1, ..., 7) and
sequential fluorine addition in the series C60Fn- (n = 0, 1, 2) Estima
tes for C-F bond dissociation energies of C60F2 and C70F2 and electron
affinities of monofluorinated [60]- and [70]fullerenes in the gas pha
se are reported.