Alan L. Balch
University of Southern Mississippi
20 Papers
118 Citations
Alan L. Balch is an academic researcher from University of Southern Mississippi. The author has contributed to research in topics: Luminescence & Molecule. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 20 publications.
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Papers
A Distorted Tetrahedral Metal Oxide Cluster inside an Icosahedral Carbon Cage. Synthesis, Isolation, and Structural Characterization of Sc4(μ3-O)2@Ih-C80
Steven Stevenson,Mary A. Mackey,Melissa A. Stuart,J. Paige Phillips,Michael L. Easterling,Christopher J. Chancellor,Marilyn M. Olmstead,Alan L. Balch +7 more
TL;DR: The remarkably large cluster Sc4(mu3-O)2 has been obtained trapped inside an Ih-C80 cage by conducting the vaporization of graphite rods doped with copper(II) nitrate and scandium(III) oxide in an electric arc under a low pressure helium atmosphere with an added flow of air.
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Sc2(μ2-O) Trapped in a Fullerene Cage: The Isolation and Structural Characterization of Sc2(μ2-O)@Cs(6)-C82 and the Relevance of the Thermal and Entropic Effects in Fullerene Isomer Selection
Brandon Q. Mercado,Melissa A. Stuart,Mary A. Mackey,Jane E. Pickens,Bridget S. Confait,Steven Stevenson,Michael L. Easterling,Ramón Valencia,Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea,Josep M. Poblet,Marilyn M. Olmstead,Alan L. Balch +11 more
TL;DR: The new endohedral fullerene, Sc2(μ2-O)@Cs(6)-C82, has been isolated from the carbon soot obtained by electric arc generation of fullerenes utilizing graphite rods doped with 90% Sc2O3 and 10% Cu (w/w) as discussed by the authors.
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Internal and External Factors in the Structural Organization in Cocrystals of the Mixed-Metal Endohedrals (GdSc2N@Ih-C80, Gd2ScN@Ih-C80, and TbSc2N@Ih-C80) and Nickel(II) Octaethylporphyrin
TL;DR: The MM' 2N units show a remarkable degree of orientational order in these and related compounds in which the endohedral fullerene is cocrystallized with a metalloporphyrin.
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Regioselective Cage Opening of La 2 @D 2 (10611)-C 72 with 5,6-Diphenyl- 3-(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazine**
Michio Yamada,Yasuhiro Muto,Hiroki Kurihara,Zdenek Slanina,Mitsuaki Suzuki,Yutaka Maeda,Yves Rubin,Marilyn M. Olmstead,Alan L. Balch,Shigeru Nagase,Xing Lu,Takeshi Akasaka +11 more
- 01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The results suggest that the [4+2] cycloaddition was initiated in a highly regioselective manner at the C-C bond connecting two pentagon rings of C72 and resulted in the formation of an open-cage derivative having three seven-membered ring orifices on the cage and a significantly elongated cage geometry.
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