A facile access to [60]fullerene-fused 1,3-dioxolanes: reaction of [60]fullerene with aldehydes/ketones promoted by ferric perchlorate

Fa-Bao Li; Tong-Xin Liu; Xun You; Guan-Wu Wang

doi:10.1021/ol101206u

A facile access to [60]fullerene-fused 1,3-dioxolanes: reaction of [60]fullerene with aldehydes/ketones promoted by ferric perchlorate

Org Lett. 2010 Jul 16;12(14):3258-61. doi: 10.1021/ol101206u.

Authors

Fa-Bao Li¹, Tong-Xin Liu, Xun You, Guan-Wu Wang

Affiliation

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 20565051
DOI: 10.1021/ol101206u

Abstract

The facile reaction of [60]fullerene (C(60)) with various aldehydes or ketones in the presence of ferric perchlorate successfully afforded the rare C(60)-fused 1,3-dioxolanes. A possible reaction mechanism for the formation of the C(60)-fused 1,3-dioxolanes is proposed.