Synthesis of Open-Cage Fullerenes with a Long Tail

Hao Zhang; Jie Su; Liangbing Gan

doi:10.1055/s-0040-1718520

Organic Materials (Oct 2020)

Synthesis of Open-Cage Fullerenes with a Long Tail

Hao Zhang,
Jie Su,
Liangbing Gan

Affiliations

Hao Zhang: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Jie Su: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Liangbing Gan: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1718520
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 02, no. 04
pp. 282 – 287

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Abstract To explore potential applications for open-cage fullerenes, we employed 4-((6-bromohexyl)oxy)aniline to react with an open-cage fullerene precursor which has an 11-membered orifice and prepared open-cage fullerenes with an 18-membered orifice. The bromo atom at the end of the hexyl chain in these open-cage compounds could be easily replaced by alkoxyl groups to further extend the linear chain. The results also show that the presence of the alkyl chain slightly changes the reactivity of the orifice-expansion reaction.

Published in Organic Materials

ISSN: 2625-1825 (Online)
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Country of publisher: Germany
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry
Website: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-00040992

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