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  1. Front Cover: Understanding Polyarene Trifluoromethylation with Hot CF3 Radicals Using Corannulene (Eur. J. Org. Chem. /2018)

    Article • European Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  2. Understanding Polyarene Trifluoromethylation with Hot CF3 Radicals Using Corannulene

    Article • European Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  3. Electrostatic Interaction across a Single-Layer Carbon Shell

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, June 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  4. Toward Full Zigzag-Edged Nanographenes: peri-Tetracene and Its Corresponding Circumanthracene

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  5. Expansion of the (BB)Ru metallacycle with coinage metal cations: formation of B–M–Ru–B (M = Cu, Ag, Au) dimetalacyclodiboryls

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  6. Giant exchange coupling and field-induced slow relaxation of magnetization in Gd2@C79N with a single-electron Gd–Gd bond

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  7. Magnetization relaxation in the single-ion magnet DySc2N@C80: quantum tunneling, magnetic dilution, and unconventional temperature dependence

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  8. Strong carbon cage influence on the single molecule magnetism in Dy–Sc nitride clusterfullerenes

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  9. Carbide clusterfullerene DyYTiC@C80 featuring three different metals in the endohedral cluster and its single-ion magnetism

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  10. Partial magnetic ordering in one-dimensional arrays of endofullerene single-molecule magnet peapods

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  11. Experimental and DFT Studies of the Electron-Withdrawing Ability of Perfluoroalkyl (RF ) Groups: Electron Affinities of PAH(RF ) n Increase Significantly with Increasing RF Chain Length

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  12. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in a Y3 N@C80 Endohedral Fullerene: Time-Resolved Luminescence and EPR Studies

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  13. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in a Y3 N@C80 Endohedral Fullerene: Time-Resolved Luminescence and EPR Studies

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  14. Nanoscale x-ray investigation of magnetic metallofullerene peapods

    Article • Nanotechnology, October 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  15. Interplay of spin-dependent delocalization and magnetic anisotropy in the ground and excited states of [Gd2@C78]− and [Gd2@C80]−

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  16. Spectroelectrochemical Approaches to Mechanistic Aspects of Charge Transport in meso-Nickel(II) Schiff Base Electrochromic Polymer

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, July 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  17. π-Extended and Curved Antiaromatic Polycyclic Hydrocarbons

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  18. Mononuclear Clusterfullerene Single-Molecule Magnet Containing Strained Fused-Pentagons Stabilized by a Nearly Linear Metal Cyanide Cluster

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  19. Mononuclear Clusterfullerene Single-Molecule Magnet Containing Strained Fused-Pentagons Stabilized by a Nearly Linear Metal Cyanide Cluster

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  20. Polycyclic heteroaromatic hydrocarbons containing a benzoisoindole core

    Article • Organic Chemistry Frontiers, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Dr. Gianaurelio CUNIBERTI, Dr Alexey A Popov

  21. Rapid reversible borane to boryl hydride exchange by metal shuttling on the carborane cluster surface

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  22. Record-high thermal barrier of the relaxation of magnetization in the nitride clusterfullerene Dy2ScN@C80-Ih

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  23. (BB)-Carboryne Complex of Ruthenium: Synthesis by Double B–H Activation at a Single Metal Center

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  24. Inside Back Cover: Synthesis and Isolation of the Titanium-Scandium Endohedral Fullerenes-Sc2TiC@Ih-C80, Sc2TiC@D5h-C80and Sc2TiC2@Ih-C80: Metal Size Tuning of the TiIV/TiIIIRedox Potentials (Chem. Eur. J. 37/2016)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  25. Synthesis and Isolation of the Titanium-Scandium Endohedral Fullerenes-Sc2TiC@Ih-C80, Sc2TiC@D5h-C80and Sc2TiC2@Ih-C80: Metal Size Tuning of the TiIV/TiIIIRedox Potentials

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  26. Self-assembly of endohedral metallofullerenes: a decisive role of cooling gas and metal–carbon bonding

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  27. Sc3CH@C80: selective 13C enrichment of the central carbon atom

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  28. Structures and Stability of Fullerenes, Metallofullerenes, and Their Derivatives

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  29. Copper Causes Regiospecific Formation of C4 F8 -Containing Six-Membered Rings and their Defluorination/Aromatization to C4 F4 -Containing Rings in Triphenylene/1,4-C4 F8 I2 Reactions

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  30. Methane as a Selectivity Booster in the Arc‐Discharge Synthesis of Endohedral Fullerenes: Selective Synthesis of the Single‐Molecule Magnet Dy 2 TiC@C 80 and Its Congener Dy 2 TiC ...

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  31. Corannulene Molecular Rotor with Flexible Perfluorobenzyl Blades: Synthesis, Structure and Properties

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, May 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  32. An Expanded Family of Dysprosium-Scandium Mixed-Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: The Role of the Lanthanide Metal on the Carbon Cage Size Distribution

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  33. Surface Aligned Magnetic Moments and Hysteresis of an Endohedral Single-Molecule Magnet on a Metal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  34. Perfluoroalkylfullerenes

    Article • Chemical Reviews, January 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  35. Carbide clusterfullerenes with odd number of carbon atoms: molecular and electronic structures of Sc4C@C80, Sc4C@C82, and Sc4C3@C80

    Article • Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  36. Fullerene cyanation does not always increase electron affinity: an experimental and theoretical study

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  37. A faux hawk fullerene with PCBM-like properties

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Xue-Bin Wang, Dr Alexey A Popov

  38. Magnetic anisotropy of endohedral lanthanide ions: paramagnetic NMR study of MSc2N@C80-Ih with M running through the whole 4f row

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  39. Prato and Bingel–Hirsch cycloaddition to heptagon-containing LaSc2N@Cs(hept)-C80: importance of pentalene units

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  40. 19F NMR-, ESR-, and vis-NIR-spectroelectrochemical study of the unconventional reduction behaviour of a perfluoroalkylated fullerene: dimerization of the C70(CF3)10− radical anion

    Article • The Analyst, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  41. Synthesis and Structure of LaSc2N@Cs(hept)-C80with One Heptagon and Thirteen Pentagons

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  42. Anion Radicals of Isomeric [5,6] and [6,6] Benzoadducts of Sc 3 N@C 80 : Remarkable Differences in Endohedral Cluster Spin Density and Dynamics

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  43. Transition-Metal and Rare-Earth-Metal Redox Couples inside Carbon Cages: Fullerenes Acting as Innocent Ligands

    Article • Organometallics, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  44. The Metallofullerene Field‐Induced Single‐Ion Magnet HoSc 2 N@C 80

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  45. Cluster-size dependent internal dynamics and magnetic anisotropy of Ho ions in HoM2N@C80and Ho2MN@C80families (M = Sc, Lu, Y)

    Article • Nanoscale, August 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  46. X-ray induced demagnetization of single-molecule magnets

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, July 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  47. Thermal [6,6] → [6,6] Isomerization and Decomposition of PCBM (Phenyl-C 61 -butyric Acid Methyl Ester)

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  48. Endohedral fullerene with μ3-carbido ligand and titanium-carbon double bond stabilized inside a carbon cage

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  49. Computational Studies of Endohedral Fullerenes: Bonding, Isomerism, Internal Dynamics, Spectroscopy, and Chemical Reactivity

    Article • April 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  50. Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes – New Advances and Challenges

    Article • April 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  51. Clusters Encapsulated in Endohedral Metallofullerenes: How Strained Are They?

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  52. Free-Standing Single-Atom-Thick Iron Membranes Suspended in Graphene Pores

    Article • Science, March 2014, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  53. Single-Step Gas-Phase Polyperfluoroalkylation of Naphthalene Leads to Thermodynamic Products

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  54. Tunneling, remanence, and frustration in dysprosium-based endohedral single-molecule magnets

    Article • Physical Review B, February 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  55. Magnetic moments and exchange coupling in nitride clusterfullerenes GdxSc3–xN@C80 (x = 1–3)

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  56. Endohedral metal or a fullerene cage based oxidation? Redox duality of nitride clusterfullerenes CexM3−xN@C78–88(x = 1, 2; M = Sc and Y) dictated by the encaged metals and the carbon cage size

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  57. Carbon Cage Vibrations of M@C82and M2@C2n(M = La, Ce; 2n = 72, 78, 80): The Role of the Metal Atoms

    Article • Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  58. Fullerene “Superhalogen” Radicals: the Substituent Effect on Electronic Properties of 1,7,11,24,27-C60X5

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2013, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  59. Strain-Driven Endohedral Redox Couple Ce IV /Ce III in Nitride Clusterfullerenes CeM 2 N@C 80 (M = Sc, Y, Lu)

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  60. Perfluoroalkyl [70]-Fullerenes as Robust Highly-Luminescent Fluorocarbons, or Position of One CF 3 Group Matters

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  61. Electron Affinity of Phenyl–C 61 –Butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PCBM)

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  62. C20H4(C4F8)3: A Fluorine-Containing Annulated Corannulene that Is a Better Electron Acceptor Than C60

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  63. Growth of all-carbon horizontally aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes nucleated from fullerene-based structures

    Article • Nanoscale Research Letters, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  64. Endohedral Fullerenes

    Article • Chemical Reviews, May 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  65. Topological Signatures in the Electronic Structure of Graphene Spirals

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov, Dr Pekka Koskinen

  66. Gd–Sc-Based Mixed-Metal Nitride Cluster Fullerenes: Mutual Influence of the Cage and Cluster Size and the Role of Scandium in the Electronic Structure

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, March 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  67. Regioselective Sequential Additions of Nucleophiles and Electrophiles to Perfluoroalkylfullerenes: Which Cage C Atoms Are the Most Reactive and Why?

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  68. Spin Density and Cluster Dynamics in Sc 3 N@C 80 – upon [5,6] Exohedral Functionalization: An ESR and DFT Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, February 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  69. Understanding High-Yield Catalyst-Free Growth of Horizontally Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Nucleated by Activated C 60 Species

    Article • ACS Nano, December 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  70. Redox-Active Scandium Oxide Cluster inside a Fullerene Cage: Spectroscopic, Voltammetric, Electron Spin Resonance Spectroelectrochemical, and Extended Density Functional Theory Study of Sc 4 O 2 @C 80 and Its Ion Radicals

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  71. A multi-state single-molecule switch actuated by rotation of an encapsulated cluster within a fullerene cage

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  72. A Platform for Specific Delivery of Lanthanide-Scandium Mixed-Metal Cluster Fullerenes into Target Cells

    Article • ChemistryOpen, September 2012, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  73. Synthesis, Isolation, and Spectroscopic Characterization of Holmium-Based Mixed-Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: HoxSc3−xN@C80 (x=1, 2)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  74. An Endohedral Single-Molecule Magnet with Long Relaxation Times: DySc 2 N@C 80

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  75. A Buckybowl with a Lot of Potential: C5-C20H5(CF3)5

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, April 2012, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  76. Correction to Organometallic Complexes of Graphene: Toward Atomic Spintronics Using a Graphene Web

    Article • ACS Nano, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  77. Titanium/Yttrium Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene TiY 2 N@C 80 : Synthesis, Isolation, and Effect of the Group-III Metal

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  78. Bonding between strongly repulsive metal atoms: an oxymoron made real in a confined space of endohedral metallofullerenes

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov, Professor Ángel Martín Pendás

  79. Substituent effects in a series of 1,7-C60(RF)2 compounds (RF = CF3, C2F5, n-C3F7, i-C3F7, n-C4F9, s-C4F9, n-C8F17): electron affinities, reduction potentials and E(LUMO) values are not always correlated

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Xue-Bin Wang, Dr Alexey A Popov

  80. Structures and Stability of Fullerenes, Metallofullerenes, and Their Derivatives

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  81. Organometallic Complexes of Graphene: Toward Atomic Spintronics Using a Graphene Web

    Article • ACS Nano, December 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  82. A Molecular Switch Based on Current-Driven Rotation of an Encapsulated Cluster within a Fullerene Cage

    Article • Nano Letters, December 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  83. The Structure of (H3O)2B12F12·6H2O - a CCP Lattice of B12F122- Anions Intercalated with a Nonplanar Network of O-H···O Connected O6 Rings

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2011, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  84. Unique Ultralow 18π-Trannulenyl HOMO–LUMO Energy Gap of Photostable Emerald-Green D3d-2-Methylmalonato[60]fullerenes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Loon-Seng Tan, Dr Alexey A Popov

  85. The State of Asymmetric Nitride Clusters in Endohedral Fullerenes as Studied by 14 N NMR Spectroscopy: Experiment and Theory

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, August 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  86. Growth of catalyst-assisted and catalyst-free horizontally aligned single wall carbon nanotubes

    Article • physica status solidi (b), August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  87. Dimerization of Radical-Anions: Nitride Clusterfullerenes versus Empty Fullerenes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  88. In Search of Fullerene-Based Superacids: Synthesis, X-ray Structure, and DFT Study of C60(C2F5)5H

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  89. Nitrogen Directs Multiple Radical Additions to the 9,9′-Bi-1-aza(C60-Ih)[5,6]fullerene: X-ray Structure of 6,9,12,15,18-C59N(CF3)5

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  90. Electrochemistry In Cavea: Endohedral Redox Reactions of Encaged Species in Fullerenes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, April 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  91. Poly(perfluoroalkylation) of Metallic Nitride Fullerenes Reveals Addition-Pattern Guidelines: Synthesis and Characterization of a Family of Sc 3 N@C 80 (CF 3 ) n ( n = 2−16) and Their Radical Anions

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  92. Chemical tailoring of fullerene acceptors: synthesis, structures and electrochemical properties of perfluoroisopropylfullerenes

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  93. Charge controlled changes in the cluster and spin dynamics of Sc3N@C80(CF3)2: the flexible spin density distribution and its impact on ESR spectra

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  94. High-temperature and photochemical syntheses of C60 and C70 fullerene derivatives with linear perfluoroalkyl chains

    Article • Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  95. Latent Porosity in Potassium Dodecafluoro- closo -dodecaborate(2−). Structures and Rapid Room Temperature Interconversions of Crystalline K 2 B 12 F 12 , K 2 (H 2 O) 2 B 12 F 12 , and K 2 (H 2 O) 4 B 12 F 12 in the Presence of Water Vapor

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  96. Unraveling the Electron Spin Resonance Pattern of Nonsymmetric Radicals with 30 Fluorine Atoms: Electron Spin Resonance and Vis−Near-Infrared Spectroelectrochemistry of the Anion Radicals and Dianions of C 60 (CF 3 ) 2 n (2 n = 2−10) Derivatives and...

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  97. Spin-Flow Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules with Flexible Spin Density: Electrochemistry, ESR, Cluster and Spin Dynamics, and Bonding in TiSc 2 N@C 80

    Article • ACS Nano, August 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  98. Soluble Chlorofullerenes C 60 Cl 2,4,6,8,10 . Synthesis, Purification, Compositional Analysis, Stability, and Experimental/Theoretical Structure Elucidation, Including the X-ray Structure of C 1 -C 60 Cl 10

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  99. Direct Arc-Discharge Assisted Synthesis of C 60 H 2 (C 3 H 5 N): A cis-1-Pyrrolino C 60 Fullerene Hydride with Unusual Redox Properties

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, April 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  100. Metal Sulfide in a C 82 Fullerene Cage: A New Form of Endohedral Clusterfullerenes

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  101. Inside Cover: Redox-Tuning Endohedral Fullerene Spin States: From the Dication to the Trianion Radical of Sc3N@C80(CF3)2 in Five Reversible Single-Electron Steps (Chem. Eur. J. 16/2010)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  102. Redox-Tuning Endohedral Fullerene Spin States: From the Dication to the Trianion Radical of Sc3N@C80(CF3)2 in Five Reversible Single-Electron Steps

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, March 2010, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  103. Electrochemical Tuning of Spin States of the Endohedral Metallofullerene Y@C82 as Probed by ESR Spectroelectrochemistry

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2010, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  104. A Pseudoatom in a Cage: Trimetallofullerene Y 3 @C 80 Mimics Y 3 N@C 80 with Nitrogen Substituted by a Pseudoatom

    Article • ACS Nano, February 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  105. Photoelectron Spectroscopy of C 60 F n − and C 60 F m 2− ( n = 17, 33, 35, 43, 45, 47; m = 34, 46) in the Gas Phase and the Generation and Characterization of C 1 -C 60 F 47 − and D 2 -C 60 F 44 in Solution

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, February 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  106. Dynamic HPLC study of C70 chlorination reveals a surprisingly selective synthesis of C70Cl8

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  107. An endohedral redox system in a fullerene cage: the Ce based mixed-metal cluster fullerene Lu2CeN@C80

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  108. Direct Perfluorination of K 2 B 12 H 12 in Acetonitrile Occurs at the Gas Bubble−Solution Interface and Is Inhibited by HF. Experimental and DFT Study of Inhibition by Protic Acids and Soft, Polarizable Anions

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  109. Saturnene Revealed: X-ray Crystal Structure of D5d-C60F20 Formed in Reactions of C60 with AxMFy Fluorinating Agents (A=Alkali Metal; M=3d Metal)

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 2009, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  110. Sc 3 N@(C 80 - I h (7))(CF 3 ) 14 and Sc 3 N@(C 80 - I h (7))(CF 3 ) 16 . Endohedral Metallofullerene Derivatives with Exohedral Addends on Four and Eight Triple-Hexagon Junctions. Does the Sc 3 N Cluster Control the Addition Pattern or Vice Versa?

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  111. Bonding in Endohedral Metallofullerenes as Studied by Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2009, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  112. Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes in Cage Isomers: Lu x Sc 3− x N@C 80 ( x = 1, 2) As Compared with M x Sc 3− x N@C 80 (M = Er, Dy, Gd, Nd)

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, May 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  113. Charged States of Four Isomers of C 84 Fullerene: In Situ ESR and Vis−NIR Spectroelectrochemistry and DFT Calculations

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, April 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  114. Metal-Cage Bonding, Molecular Structures and Vibrational Spectra of Endohedral Fullerenes: Bridging Experiment and Theory

    Article • Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, February 2009, American Scientific Publishers

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  115. Vibrational, electronic, and vibronic excitations of polar C 60 F 18 molecules: Experimental and theoretical study

    Article • Physical Review B, January 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  116. Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study of the Dimeric Dicationic Fullerene Complex [(C 70 ) 2 ] 2+ (Ti 3 Cl 13 ) − 2

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, January 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  117. An endohedral titanium(iii) in a clusterfullerene: putting a non-group-III metal nitride into the C80-Ih fullerene cage

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  118. Electronic Structure of Sc[sub 3]N@C[sub 68] in Neutral and Charged States: An Experimental and TD-DFT Study

    Article • January 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  119. Hindered Cluster Rotation and 45 Sc Hyperfine Splitting Constant in Distonoid Anion Radical Sc 3 N@C 80 − , and Spatial Spin−Charge Separation as a General Principle for Anions of Endohedral Fullerenes with Metal-Localized Lowest Unoccupied Molecular ...

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  120. The Extended View on the EmptyC2(3)-C82Fullerene: Isolation, Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Spectroelectrochemical Characterization and DFT Calculations

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, November 2008, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  121. Carbon Pyramidalization in Fullerene Cages Induced by the Endohedral Cluster: Non-Scandium Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, October 2008, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  122. Synthesis and X-ray or NMR/DFT Structure Elucidation of Twenty-One New Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Soluble Cage Isomers of C 76 , C 78 , C 84 , and C 90

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  123. C1-(C84-C2(11))(CF3)12: Trifluoromethylation Yields Structural Proof of a Minor C84Cage and Reveals a Principle of Higher Fullerene Reactivity

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  124. Charged States of Sc 3 N@C 68 : An In Situ Spectroelectrochemical Study of the Radical Cation and Radical Anion of a Non-IPR Fullerene

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, July 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  125. The Isomers of Gadolinium Scandium Nitride Clusterfullerenes GdxSc3−xN@C80 (x=1, 2) and Their Influence on Cluster Structure

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, February 2008, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  126. ESR-Vis/NIR Spectroelectrochemical Study of C70(CF3)2−. and C70(C2F5)2−. Radical Anions

    Article • ChemPhysChem, February 2008, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  127. Large mixed metal nitride clusters encapsulated in a small cage: the confinement of the C68-based clusterfullerenes

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  128. 1,3,7,10,14,17,21,28,31,42,52,55-Dodecakis(trifluoromethyl)- 1,3,7,10,14,17,21,28,31,42,52,55-dodecahydro(C60–Ih)[5,6]fullerene

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, December 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  129. The Role of an Asymmetric Nitride Cluster on a Fullerene Cage:  The Non-IPR Endohedral DySc 2 N@C 76

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, December 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  130. Synthesis, Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Characterization, and DFT Study of Seventeen C70(CF3)nDerivatives (n=2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, October 2007, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  131. Synthesis and Structure of Ag(1-Me-12-SiPh3-CB11F10):  Selective F12 Substitution in 1-Me-CB11F11-and the First Ag(arene)4+Tetrahedron

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, October 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  132. Structure, Stability, and Cluster-Cage Interactions in Nitride Clusterfullerenes M 3 N@C 2 n (M = Sc, Y; 2 n = 68−98):  a Density Functional Theory Study

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  133. Radical Trifluoromethylation of Sc 3 N@C 80

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  134. Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, and DFT Study of C 60 (CF 3 ) n Frontier Orbitals ( n = 2−18):  The Link between Double Bonds in Pentagons and Reduction Potentials

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  135. 1,6,11,18,24,27,33,51,54,60-Decakis(trifluoromethyl)-1,6,11,18,24,27,33,51,54,60-decahydro(C60-Ih)[5,6]fullerene

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, June 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  136. Discovering and Verifying Elusive Fullerene Cage Isomers: Structures ofC2-p11-(C74-D3h)(CF3)12 andC2-p11-(C78-D3h(5))(CF3)12

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, May 2007, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  137. Polarized IR studies of C60F18 single crystals

    Article • Diamond and Related Materials, April 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  138. Infrared spectrum and structure of 2-thienyl-N-methylfulleropyrrolidine

    Article • Moscow University Chemistry Bulletin, April 2007, Allerton Press

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  139. C 78 Cage Isomerism Defined by Trimetallic Nitride Cluster Size:  A Computational and Vibrational Spectroscopic Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, April 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  140. Entrapped Bonded Hydrogen in a Fullerene: the Five-Atom Cluster Sc3CH in C80

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2007, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  141. Violating the Isolated Pentagon Rule (IPR): The Endohedral Non-IPR C70 Cage of Sc3N@C70

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, February 2007, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  142. X-ray structure and DFT study of C1-C60(CF3)12. A high-energy, kinetically-stable isomer prepared at 500 °C

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  143. Vibrational Structure in the Electronic Spectra of C60 and Fullerene Derivatives as Studied by Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

    Article • January 2007, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  144. Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Insoluble Small-HOMO−LUMO-Gap Hollow Higher Fullerenes. NMR and DFT Structure Elucidation of C 2 -(C 74 - D 3 h )(CF 3 ) 12 , C s -(C 76 - T d (2))(CF 3 ) 12 , C 2 -(C 78 - D 3 h (5))(CF 3 ) 12 , C s -(C 80 - C...

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  145. Equilibrium Phase Diagram of Polymerized C60and Kinetics of Decomposition of the Polymerized Phases

    Article • Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  146. Deviation from the Planaritya Large Dy 3 N Cluster Encapsulated in an I h -C 80 Cage:  An X-ray Crystallographic and Vibrational Spectroscopic Study

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  147. A Facile Route to the Non-IPR Fullerene Sc3N@C68: Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization, and Density Functional Theory Computations (IPR=Isolated Pentagon Rule)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, October 2006, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  148. Reaction of C60 with KMnF4

    Article • Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, October 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  149. Gadolinium-Based Mixed-Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes GdxSc3−xN@C80 (x=1, 2)

    Article • ChemPhysChem, September 2006, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  150. Thermally Stable Perfluoroalkylfullerenes with the Skew-Pentagonal-Pyramid Pattern:  C 60 (C 2 F 5 ) 4 O, C 60 (CF 3 ) 4 O, and C 60 (CF 3 ) 6

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  151. Vibrational Structure of Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C78 (D3h′): Evidence for a Strong Coupling between the Sc3N Cluster and C78 Cage

    Article • ChemPhysChem, August 2006, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  152. Infrared, Raman, and DFT Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of C 60 F 36 and C 60 F 48

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, July 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  153. Electronic Structure and Spectroscopic Studies of D 3 d -C 60 Cl 30 , a Chlorofullerene with a [18]Trannulene Ring, and Its Relation to Other [18]Trannulenes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, June 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  154. Synthesis, Characterization, and Theoretical Study of Stable Isomers of C70(CF3)n (n = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, May 2006, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  155. 1,6,12,15,18,23,25,41,45,57-Decakis(trifluoromethyl)-1,6,12,15,18,23,25,41,45,57-decahydro(C60–I h)[5,6]fullerene

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, March 2006, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  156. Tetrabutylammonium salt of the B24F224− anion. Two B12F112− icosahedra linked by a 2c–2e BB bond and surrounded by a sheath of CH· · ·FB hydrogen bonds

    Article • Heteroatom Chemistry, January 2006, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  157. High-Temperature Synthesis of the Surprisingly StableC1-C70(CF3)10 Isomer with apara7-meta-para Ribbon of Nine C6(CF3)2 Edge-Sharing Hexagons

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 2005, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  158. Poly(trifluoromethyl)fullerene Radical Anions. An ESR/Vis−NIR Spectroelectrochemical Study of C 60 F 2,4 and C 60 (CF 3 ) 2,10

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, November 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  159. Seven-Minute Synthesis of PureCs-C60Cl6 from [60]Fullerene and Iodine Monochloride: First IR, Raman, and Mass Spectra of 99 mol % C60Cl6

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2005, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  160. Preparation and Crystallographic Characterization of C60Cl24.

    Article • ChemInform, July 2005, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  161. A [70]Fullerene Chloride, C70Cl16, Obtained by the Attempted Bromination of C70 in TiCl4

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, July 2005, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  162. Synthesis and structures of C60 fullerene chlorides

    Article • Russian Chemical Bulletin, July 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  163. Spectroelectrochemical Properties of Some Polymers of Polythiophene Series

    Article • Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  164. Understanding mechanochemical coupling in kinesins using first-passage-time processes

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  165. Preparation and Structural Characterization of Two Kinetically Stable Chlorofullerenes, C60Cl28 and C60Cl30

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, January 2005, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  166. Vibrational Spectra of Chloro‐ and Bromofullerenes

    Article • Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  167. Preparation and crystallographic characterization of C60Cl24

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2005, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  168. Relative stability of polymerized phases of C60: Depolymerization of a tetragonal phase

    Article • Carbon, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  169. Raman, Infrared, and Theoretical Studies of Fluorofullerene C 60 F 20

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, December 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  170. Vibrations of bromofullerene C60Br24: C60 cage confined into static bromine sphere

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  171. Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of C60F18, C60F36 and C60F48

    Article • Vibrational Spectroscopy, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  172. The First X-ray Crystal Structures of Halogenated [70]Fullerene: C70Br10 and C70Br10⋅3 Br2

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, May 2003, Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  173. Bromination of [60]Fullerene. I. High‐Yield Synthesis of C60Brx(x=6, 8, 24)

    Article • Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, March 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  174. Sublimation of hydrofullerenes C60H36 and C60H18

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, March 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Alexey A Popov

  175. Fullerenes

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Alexey A Popov