Reactions of [60]fullerene with alkynes promoted by OH

Wei-Wei Chang; Fa-Hui He; Alberto García-Peñas; Mehdihasan I Shekh; Zong-Jun Li

doi:10.1039/d2ra01300b

Reactions of [60]fullerene with alkynes promoted by OH

RSC Adv. 2022 May 10;12(22):14018-14021. doi: 10.1039/d2ra01300b. eCollection 2022 May 5.

Authors

Wei-Wei Chang^{1

2}, Fa-Hui He^{2

3}, Alberto García-Peñas⁴, Mehdihasan I Shekh⁵, Zong-Jun Li²

Affiliations

¹ Analysis & Testing Center, Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China.
² State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun 130022 China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Dalian 116023 China hefg@dicp.ac.cn.
⁴ Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering, IAAB, University Carlos III of Madrid Madrid 28911 Spain.
⁵ New Energy Materials Laboratory, College of Materials Science, Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518055 China.

Abstract

In the current work, the reactions of [60]fullerene with alkynes promoted by OH^- (base) are addressed. The treatment of C₆₀ with alkynes in the presence of TBAOH produces alkynylation products (R-C₆₀-H) with high selectivity in o-DCB at 100 °C. Plausible reaction mechanisms were proposed. This work provides a convenient and environmental friendly method for the functionalization of fullerenes.