Dedicated to Professor Heribert Offermanns on the occasion of his 75th birthday The so far missing chloro analog of the bromofullerene C2v-C60Br8 has been synthesized by reaction of C60 fullerene with iodine monochloride. The title compound has been separated by means of HPLC, and its molecular structure has been unambiguously determined by single-crystal X-ray analysis. A facile synthesis of C...

We present for the first time a coherent ab initio study of 39 states of valence, Rydberg, and ion-pair character of the diatomic interhalogen ICl species through large scale multireference variational methods including spin-orbit effects coupled with quantitative basis sets. Various avoided crossings are responsible for a non-adiabatic behaviour creating a wonderful vista for its theoretical d...