Friedel-Crafts Reactions of Buckminsterfullerene

Abstract

Buckminsterfullerene reacts with aromatic benzene derivatives in the presence of Lewis acids such as aluminum trichloride or aluminum tribromide to give Friedel-Crafts fullerenation products. Polyhalogenated fullerenes also react with aromatic compounds to afford fullerylated aromatic compound under the Friedel-Crafts reaction conditions.

Organofullerene Materials

“…Although it is very well established that C 60 generally behaves as an electron-deficient olefin and undergoes a variety of nucleophilic additions, it has also been shown that C 60 can undergo protonation and nitration (electrophilic additions) [119][120][121]. Furthermore, stable radical-cations of organofullerenes have been prepared, isolated, and studied.…”

Complementary study of molecular dynamics and domain sizes in heterogenous nanocomposites PBT/DA-C60 and PBT/TCNEO-C60

“…Fullerenation of PBT by direct reaction between DA-C 60 and TCNEO-C 60 was carried out according to the Olah method, using AlC1 3 catalyst. 12 The reaction mixture of PBT, fullerene derivate, and AlCl 3 in benzene was refluxed under argon for 24 h. After quenching with water, the organic layer was separated, dried, and evaporated. A detailed description of the synthesis of the new nanocomposites was presented elsewhere.…”

Generation, Stability, and Reactions of Alkylated Fullerene Cations

“…Although the formation of stable carbanions by nucleophilic addition to C 6 o and higher fiillerenes is well known {14, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], the addition of electrophiles, which leads to derivatized fullerene cations, is quite rare. When C 6 o is treated with A1C1 3 in benzene, a mixture of polyhydrophenylated C 6 ois obtained ( Figure 2, [A]) {22-24).…”