Supramolecular Complexes of Photoexcited Functionalized Fullerenes and Spin Labeled Alkyl Ammonium Derivatives

203th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Paris, France, May 2, 2003 With the aim to obtain materials which can exhibits new properties, functionalized [60]fullerene compounds have been incorporated in a variety of structures containing two counterparts as for example photoactive and electroactive groups. In order to exploit the versatility and reversibility of supramolecular interaction, new systems have been developed combining two interacting moieties linked through a noncovalent bond (1). The synthesis and the complexing ability towards primary alkyl ammonium ions of some methanofullerenes prepared from cyclic malonic esters were recently reported (2). In this work we present the results of a study performed using time resolved EPR (TR-EPR) on these compounds.