Synthesis of disubstituted [60]fullerene-fused lactones: ferric perchlorate-promoted reaction of [60]fullerene with malonate esters

Fa-Bao Li; Xun You; Guan-Wu Wang

doi:10.1021/ol102056k

Synthesis of disubstituted [60]fullerene-fused lactones: ferric perchlorate-promoted reaction of [60]fullerene with malonate esters

Org Lett. 2010 Nov 5;12(21):4896-9. doi: 10.1021/ol102056k.

Authors

Fa-Bao Li¹, Xun You, Guan-Wu Wang

Affiliation

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.

PMID: 20879777
DOI: 10.1021/ol102056k

Abstract

The ferric perchlorate-mediated reaction of [60]fullerene with substituted malonate esters in the presence of acetic anhydride afforded the rare disubstituted [60]fullerene-fused lactones. A possible reaction mechanism is proposed.