Facile Multiple Alkylations of C60 Fullerene

Kazuhira Miwa; Shinobu Aoyagi; Takahiro Sasamori; Shogo Morisako; Hiroshi Ueno; Yutaka Matsuo; Hideki Yorimitsu

doi:10.3390/molecules27020450

Facile Multiple Alkylations of C₆₀ Fullerene

Molecules. 2022 Jan 10;27(2):450. doi: 10.3390/molecules27020450.

Authors

Kazuhira Miwa¹, Shinobu Aoyagi¹, Takahiro Sasamori^{1

2}, Shogo Morisako^{1

2}, Hiroshi Ueno³, Yutaka Matsuo^{4

5}, Hideki Yorimitsu⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Information and Basic Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya 467-8501, Aichi, Japan.
² Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Sciences (TREMS), Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8571, Ibaraki, Japan.
³ Creative Interdisciplinary Research Division, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Miyagi, Japan.
⁴ Department of Chemical System Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Aichi, Japan.
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.

Abstract

The reduction of fullerene (C₆₀) with sodium dispersion in the presence of an excess amount of dipropyl sulfate was found to yield highly propylated fullerene, C₆₀(nC₃H₇)_n (max. n = 24), and C₆₀(nC₃H₇)₂₀ was predominantly generated as determined by mass spectroscopy.

Keywords: C60; alkylation; dialkyl sulfate; fullerene; sodium dispersion.

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