Facile Multiple Alkylations of C<sub>60</sub> Fullerene

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

doi:10.3390/molecules27020450

Molecules (Jan 2022)

Facile Multiple Alkylations of C<sub>60</sub> Fullerene

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

Affiliations

Kazuhira Miwa: Department of Information and Basic Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya 467-8501, Aichi, Japan
Shinobu Aoyagi: Department of Information and Basic Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya 467-8501, Aichi, Japan
Takahiro Sasamori: Department of Information and Basic Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya 467-8501, Aichi, Japan
Shogo Morisako: Department of Information and Basic Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya 467-8501, Aichi, Japan
Hiroshi Ueno: 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
Yutaka Matsuo: Department of Chemical System Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Aichi, Japan
Hideki Yorimitsu: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27020450
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 27, no. 2
p. 450

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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.

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ISSN: 1420-3049 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry: Organic chemistry
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules

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