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Atomic and Molecular Endofullerenes: Spins in a box

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Endofullerenes
Connect with Malcolm

Email: mhl@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Richard Whitby

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Synthesis, properties and application of atomic and molecular endofullerenes.
  • The use of flow chemistry for the rapid acquisition of mechanistic and process information.
  • The synthesis of polyaromatic molecules for optoelectronic applications.
Connect with Richard

Email: R.J.Whitby@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

31P spin-lattice and singlet order relaxation mechanisms in pyrophosphate studied by isotopic substitution, field shuttling NMR, and molecular dynamics simulation
David E. Korenchan, Jiaqi Lu, Mohamed Sabba, Laurynas Dagys, Lynda J. Brown, Malcolm H. Levitt & Alexej Jerschow, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(39), 24239-24246
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03801c
Type: article
Synthesis of endohedral fullerenes by molecular surgery
Sally Bloodworth & Richard J. Whitby, 2022, Communications Chemistry, 5(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s42004-022-00738-9
Type: review
Synthesis and 83Kr NMR spectroscopy of Kr@C60
Gabriela Hoffman, George R. Bacanu, Elizabeth Marsden, Mark Walkey, Mohamed Sabba, Sally Bloodworth, Graham J. Tizzard, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard J. Whitby, 2022, Chemical Communications, 2022(80), 11284-11287
DOI: 10.1039/D2CC03398D
Type: article
Terahertz spectroscopy of the helium endofullerene He@C60
Tanzeeha Jafari, George Razvan Bacanu, Anna Shugai, Urmas Nagel, Mark Walkey, Gabriela Hoffman, Malcolm H. Levitt, Richard J. Whitby & Toomas Rõõm, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(17), 9943-9952
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00515h
Type: article
Weak nuclear spin singlet relaxation mechanisms revealed by experiment and computation’
Boris Kharkov, Xueyou Duan, Jyrki JS Rantaharju, Mohamed Sabba, Malcolm H. Levitt, James W. Canary & Alexej Jerschow, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(12), 7531-7538
DOI: 10.1039/D1CP05537B
Type: article
Experimental determination of the interaction potential between a helium atom and the interior surface of a C60 fullerene molecule
George Razvan Bacanu, Tanzeeha Jafari, Mohamed Aouane, Jyrki Rantaharju, Mark Walkey, Gabriela Hoffman, Anna Shugai, Urmas Nagel, Monica Jiménez-ruiz, Anthony J. Horsewill, Stéphane Rols, Toomas Rõõm, Richard J. Whitby & Malcolm H. Levitt, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(14), 144302
DOI: 10.1063/5.0066817
Type: article
Chemical shielding of H2O and HF encapsulated inside a C60 cage
Samuel P Jarvis, Hongqian Sang, Filipe Junqueira, Oliver Gordon, Jo E. A. Hodgkinson, Alex Saywell, Philipp Rahe, Salvatore Mamone, Simon Taylor, Adam Sweetman, Jeremy Leaf, David Duncan, Tien-Lin Lee, Pardeep K. Thakur, Gabriella Hoffman, Richard J. Whitby, Malcolm H. Levitt, Georg Held, Lev Kantorovich, Philip Moriarty & Robert G Jones, 2021, Communications Chemistry, 4(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00569-0
Type: article