Mechanisms of supramolecular ordering of water-soluble derivatives of fullerenes in aqueous mediaстатья
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Аннотация:Fullerenols C60(OH)X and C70(OH)X (X~30) have been studied in aqueous solutions at the concentrations
0.05–22wt% by X-ray and neutron scattering and using modeling hydroxyls’ arrangements
on carbon cages to explain the molecular assembly defined by hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions
of molecules. In the case of C60 quantum chemical calculations minimizing molecular
energy for different configurations of OH-groups on the carbon cages showed their preferred
localization at C60 spheroids’ equatorial zone and at the opposite poles. However, less symmetric
hydroxyls’ localization on C70 molecules was found since hydroxyls do not create closed chains on
them. As a result, the molecules C60(OH)X are associated into primary chain-like aggregates (~20
units, few nanometers in size) more likely in water than the fullerenols C70(OH)X forming similar
groups of lower aggregation degree. For C60(OH)X and C70(OH)X the peculiarities in hydroxyls’
grafting affected a coordination of primary groups integrated into secondary and tertiary structures
at the distances R~5 nm and R~30nm at the concentrations C>5wt% and C>10wt%,
respectively. The discovered mechanism of fullerenols’ assembly in water will facilitate their use in
chemistry and biomedicine.