Novel addition in trifluoromethylation of [70]fullerene |
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Authors: | Adam D. Darwish Anthony G. Avent Joan M. Street |
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Affiliation: | a Chemistry Department, Sussex University, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK b Chemistry Department, The University, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK |
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Abstract: | Pyrolytic trifluoromethylation of [70]fullerene with CF3CO2Ag at 300 °C results in the addition of up to 12 CF3 groups to the fullerene cage. Forty-six C70(CF3)n derivatives (numbers in parentheses) were separated by two-stage high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) as follows: n = 2(2), 4(16), 6(9), 8(14) 10(5), some being characterised by NMR. The range of derivatives is much greater than for other [70]fullerene reactions, and as with [60]fullerene trifluoromethylation, no single derivative is dominant, indicating that kinetic stability mainly controls product formation. NMR spectra show most derivatives to be unsymmetrical, with combinations of quartets and septets (overlapping quartets) due to contiguous (‘linear’) addend arrays, having significantly different coupling constants of the ‘terminal’ quartets of between 9.1 and 17.7 Hz. These differences, together with those observed previously in trifluoromethylation of [60]fullerene are consistent with addition across both 6:6- and 5:6-ring junctions. Of the two C70(CF3)2 isomers, one has either Cs or C2 symmetry, the other has C1 symmetry, whilst the C70(CF3)4 derivatives fall into four categories: (i) symmetrical compounds (one gives only two singlets in the NMR); (ii) unsymmetrical compounds that show a ‘linear’ coupling sequence; (iii) unsymmetrical compounds having a remote pairs of adjacent groups; (iv) compounds having a coupled array of three CF3 groups, together with a remote group suggesting sterically-driven migration. The first evaluation of differential NMR couplings across 6:6- and 5:6-bonds in a fullerene has been made using C60F6 as a model. |
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Keywords: | [70]Fullerene Trifluoromethylation Addition patterns Fluorine NMR Mechanism |
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