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Nadezhda B Tamm1, Natalia S Lukonina1, Vladislav P Shakhov1
1Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Chlorination of isolated pentagon rule (IPR)-fullerene C60 with a SbCl3/SbCl5 mixture at 320 °C and pure SbCl5 at 500 °C promotes Stone-Wales rearrangements leading to non-IPR chlorofullerenes #1809C60Cl10 (with ca. 15% yield) and #1806C60Cl26 as low-soluble crystalline products. According to single-crystal XRD analysis, the chlorination pattern of Cs-#1809C60Cl10 with two fused pentagon pairs in the carbon cage contains the addition pattern of known C2v-#1809C60X8 (X = H, Cl) as a substructure. The chlorination pattern of C2-#1806C60Cl26 with four pairs of fused pentagons in the carbon cage features the presence of seven- and eight-membered chains of ortho chlorine attachments. The known Cl and CF3 derivatives of both non-IPR #1809C60 and #1806C60 carbon cages are compared.
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