Synthesis of a green [60]fullerene derivative through cage-opening reactions

Shuming Liu; Changqi Zhang; Xiang Xie; Yuming Yu; Zhifei Dai; Yuanhua Shao; Liangbing Gan; Yuliang Li

doi:10.1039/c2cc17164c

Synthesis of a green [60]fullerene derivative through cage-opening reactions

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Mar 4;48(19):2531-3. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17164c. Epub 2012 Jan 30.

Authors

Shuming Liu¹, Changqi Zhang, Xiang Xie, Yuming Yu, Zhifei Dai, Yuanhua Shao, Liangbing Gan, Yuliang Li

Affiliation

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China.

PMID: 22286014
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17164c

Abstract

Open-cage derivative C(60)(O)(4)(OH)(2)(NC(6)H(4)(t)Bu)(2) reacts with ICl to form a Baeyer-Villiger type product, which yields an intense green product upon treatment with HI.