Diels-Alder addition to fluorinated single walled carbon nanotubes

Lei Zhang; Jianzhong Yang; Christopher L Edwards; Lawrence B Alemany; Valery N Khabashesku; Andrew R Barron

doi:10.1039/b500125k

Diels-Alder addition to fluorinated single walled carbon nanotubes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Jul 14:(26):3265-7. doi: 10.1039/b500125k. Epub 2005 Jun 10.

Authors

Lei Zhang¹, Jianzhong Yang, Christopher L Edwards, Lawrence B Alemany, Valery N Khabashesku, Andrew R Barron

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.

PMID: 15983642
DOI: 10.1039/b500125k

Abstract

Fluorinated single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) undergo a facile Diels-Alder [4 + 2] cycloaddition with a range of dienes resulting in a C ratio substituent ratio between 20 ratio 1 to 32 ratio 1; IR, Raman, AFM and (13)C NMR characterization are consistent with sidewall functionalization.