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Preparation of a Corannulene-functionalized Hexahelicene by Copper(I)-catalyzed Alkyne-azide Cycloaddition of Nonplanar Polyaromatic Units
Published on: September 18, 2016
Facile synthesis of multifullerene-OPE hybrids via in situ ethynylation
Yasuhiro Shirai1, Yuming Zhao, Long Cheng
1Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, MS-222, 6100 Main St., Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] A series of fullerene-terminated oligo(phenylene ethynylene)s (OPEs) (1a-d and 2) have been synthesized and further characterized by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and UV-vis spectroscopy. The key step in the syntheses is an effective one-pot reaction that allows the attachment of C(60) to multiple terminal alkynes.
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