Solution Dynamics of Covalent Open‐[60]Fullerene Dimers

Abstract

The translational diffusivity of covalent open‐[60]fullerene dimers in an organic solvent was found to be well describable by a prolate ellipsoid model while a monomeric open‐[60]fullerene behaves like a sphere model. The water association dynamics were examined for two open‐[60]fullerene dimers, showing a higher water affinity for the sp3‐linked dimer relative to sp2‐linked dimer owing to an effective orbital–orbital overlap identified by π(fullerene) → σ*(H2O) interactions as suggested by theoretical calculations.