An efficient route to the synthesis of symmetric and asymmetric diastereomerically pure fullerene triads

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• 作者：Maria A. Lebedeva ; Thomas W. Chamberlain ; Martin Schr&ouml ; der ; Andrei N. Khlobystov ; ^{andrei.khlobystov@nottingham.ac.uk}
• 关键词：Fullerene functionalization ; Fullerene dimers ; Asymmetric triads
• 刊名：Tetrahedron
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：107_00404020
• 类别：ch
• 出版时间：24 June, 2012
• 卷：68
• 期：25
• 页码：4976-4985
• 文件大小：904 K

摘要

A new synthetic route based on the stepwise functionalisation of fullerene cages allows the facile formation of linear, diastereomerically pure triads incorporating two different fullerene cages linked by an organic spacer group. The critical coupling step of two fullerene cages via activation by N,N鈥?/em>-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide was systematically investigated to reveal that the yield of the coupling is maximised in o-dichlorobenzene at high concentrations of the reactant fullerene nucleophile, while in more polar solvents or at lower concentrations of reactants the formation of unwanted side-products (such as guanidine-, N-acylurea- and anhydride-functionalised fullerenes) is favoured. The resultant triads possess an atypically good solubility for this class of compound, which enabled full detailed characterisation by ¹H and ¹³C NMR, IR and UV-vis spectroscopies and by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.