The ®lms of an amphiphilic C 60 -EDTA (C 60 EA) and its tetramethyl ester (C 60 EM), prepared both by drop-coating and Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique, were studied by cyclic voltammetry in acetonitrile solutions of tetra-n-butylammonium hexa¯uorophosphate as the supporting electrolyte. The drop-coated ®lm of C 60 EM displayed four pairs of redox peaks, which vanished after a few cycles due to the ®lm dissolution. For the LB ®lm of C 60 EM, three irreversible reduction peaks were observed. Both the drop-coated and the LB ®lm of C 60 EA showed two irreversible reduction peaks.Keywords: C 60 -EDTA derivatives, Langmuir±Blodgett and drop-coated ®lms, Cyclic voltammetry Because of their unique molecular structure and peculiar physical and chemical properties, fullerenes and their derivatives attracted an unprecedented worldwide research effort. Thin ®lms of [60]fullerene, C 60 , and its derivatives have been widely investigated for structural characterization, interfacial electron transfer, and ion transport [1]. Electrochemical reduction of a fullerene ®lm is of interest because it provides a straightforward and accurate means to control the redox state of the material, e. g., in studies of the ®lm conductivity.A Langmuir-Blodgett technique is one of the most widely adopted approaches to prepare structurally ordered fullerene thin ®lms at the air-water interface and subsequent transfer of these ®lms onto a solid substrate. Initially, Bard et al. reported successful preparation of a C 60 Langmuir ®lm of a limiting molecular area of 98 A Ê 2 [2]. They also reported on electrochemical behavior of the C 60 LB ®lm afterward [3]. At the air-water interface pristine C 60 forms ill-de®ned ®lm of three-dimensional aggregates rather than a monolayer ®lm [4]. In order to prevent the aggregation of C 60 in such a ®lm, different amphiphilic fullerene derivatives have been prepared [5±21]. In these derivatives, hydrophilic headgroups are attached to a lipophilic fullerene core for enhanced interactions with the water subphase.Bryce and Petty reported [5] on formation of stable Langmuir mono-and multilayer ®lms of a t-butyl derivatized fullerene, but only the multilayer ®lms could be transferred onto solid substrates. Their cyclic voltammetry curves studies exhibited reversible peaks for the ®rst three redox processes of a LB ®lm [6].In the present paper, we report on the cyclic voltammetry behavior of the LB ®lms of an amphiphilic C 60 -EDTA (C 60 EA) and its tetramethyl ester (C 60 EM) (see Scheme 1), and compared this behavior with that of their drop-coated ®lms.Cyclic voltammetry behavior of the drop-coated ®lm: Figure 1 shows CV curves for the drop-coated ®lm of C 60 EM in MeCN containing Bu 4 NPF 6 as the supporting electrolyte. Four pairs of redox peaks were observed. The reoxidation charge was signi®cantly smaller than the reduction charge, indicating irreversible ®lm damage due to either its dissolution or chemical deactivation. In the second cycle, the peak currents were much smaller than in the ®rst one, especi...