Investigating the interaction of CH4 and with the inside of a C60 carbon cage, an INS study of the CH4@C60 molecular endofullerene
Highly innovative molecular surgery techniques have been developed in recent years to synthesise small molecule endofullerenes in which the molecular cage of C60 completely encloses and entraps a quantum rotor such as H2, H2O or HF. The physical entrapment provides a nanolaboratory environment in which to study the isolated molecule and to exploit its physical properties. Published results show that encapsulation couples quantum rotational and translations states of the H2 and H2O, but little effect of the symmetry of the C60 cage on the TR coupled states of these rotors has never been evidenced. As such the host and guest rotations appears quite uncoupled. This proposal, the first in a series of upcoming ones, for the CH4@C60 system, where a large and high symmetric molecule fills the inner C60 cavity, aims at studying the complex dynamics of this new member of the molecular endofullerene family using neutron spectroscopy in the ground state in the largest energy range. In order to get a global vision of this system. For a first experiment, we request 4 days each on IN1-LAGRANGE, PANTHER and IN5.
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AOUANE Mohamed; LEVITT Malcolm; REBOLINI Elisa; ROLS Stephane and Richard J. Whitby. (2021). Investigating the interaction of CH4 and with the inside of a C60 carbon cage, an INS study of the CH4@C60 molecular endofullerene. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) doi:10.5291/ILL-DATA.7-01-544
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