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[60]- and [70]Fullerenes are trifluoromethylated across 5:6-bonds
Adam D Darwish1, Anthony G Avent, Ala'a K Abdul-Sada
1The Chemistry Laboratory, CPES School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK BN1 9QJ.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 5, 2003
Abstract:
Trifluoromethylation of [60]- and [70]fullerenes occurs across both 6:6- and 5:6-bonds giving unsymmetrical tetramethyl adducts having four contiguous CF3 groups; both fullerenes give bis adducts which do not involve 6:6-addition, and unsymmetrical hexa-adducts (with contiguous CF3 groups) are also obtained from [60]fullerene.