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Direct current arc discharge is used for the study on the synthesis of metallofullerenes (MFs) to discover whether there exist metallic silicide fullerenes and silicon fullerenes. The resultant components are isolated by the multistage high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and analyzed with the Time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. Results show that there exist fullerenes such as SiC69, YSi2C64, YSi2C78, Y3Si2C78 as well as Y2Si2C90 which are structurally similar to (Y2C2)@C82.
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Chen, Y., Guo, L. & Zhu, L. Synthesis of metallic silicide fullerenes and the characteristics thereof by mass spectrometry. SCI CHINA SER G 50, 215–220 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-007-0016-z
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