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A novel actinide endohedral fullerene with an unexpected chiral cage, Th@C(11)-C, was synthesized and characterized. DFT calculations suggest that this low symmetry cage was favoured as a consequence of the strong interaction between Th and the cage, which makes the predictions by the ionic model less reliable for these endohedral mono-metallofullerenes.
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