Table 1. Selected distances of DFT gas-phase optimized geometries of the C60@C60H28 host–guest complex and conformer a of the host alone. The TPSS functional does not identify conformer a, so these entries are left blank.
| Method | Complex |
Host a |
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| R c (Å) | R p (Å) | R t (Å) | R p (Å) | R t (Å) | |
| PBE+MBD | 8.312 | 12.992 | 6.303 | 13.263 | 6.394 |
| PBE+TS | 8.361 | 12.974 | 6.337 | 12.969 | 6.080 |
| PBE+D3 | 8.454 | 12.987 | 6.286 | 11.640 | 6.215 |
| TPSS+D3 | 8.392 | 12.748 | 6.288 | — | — |
| TPSS+D3 a | 8.361 | 12.822 | 6.303 | — | — |
| B97-D b | 8.335 | 12.798 | 6.299 | 11.152 | 6.216 |
| M06-2L c | 8.136 | 12.703 | 6.382 | 11.844 | 6.322 |