Chlorination-promoted skeletal transformation of IPR C76 discovered via trifluoromethylation under the formation of non-IPR C76(CF3)nFm

Nadezhda B Tamm; Victor A Brotsman; Vitaliy Yu Markov; Erhard Kemnitz; Sergey I Troyanov

doi:10.1039/c8dt00984h

Chlorination-promoted skeletal transformation of IPR C₇₆ discovered via trifluoromethylation under the formation of non-IPR C₇₆(CF₃)_nF_m

Dalton Trans. 2018 May 22;47(20):6898-6902. doi: 10.1039/c8dt00984h.

Authors

Nadezhda B Tamm¹, Victor A Brotsman, Vitaliy Yu Markov, Erhard Kemnitz, Sergey I Troyanov

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Leninskie gory, Russia. stroyano@thermo.msu.chem.ru.

PMID: 29708560
DOI: 10.1039/c8dt00984h

Abstract

High-temperature chlorination of an Isolated-Pentagon Rule (IPR) D2-C76 fullerene followed by high-temperature trifluoromethylation of non-IPR C76 chlorides with CF3I unexpectedly resulted in a series of non-IPR C76(CF3)nFm compounds. X-ray diffraction study with the use of synchrotron radiation revealed the mixed CF3/F structures of non-classical, non-IPR C76(CF3)14, C76(CF3)14F2, and C76(CF3)16F6.