Fluorine takes a hike: remarkable room-temperature rearrangement of the C1 isomer of C60F36 into the C3 isomer via a 1,3-fluorine shift.
In a toluene/CDCl3 solution at room temperature, the C1 isomer of C60F36 rearranges into the C3 isomer over a period of four days, as a result of a unique 1,3-shift of fluorine; this rare example of addend migration across a fullerene cage surface is accelerated by air.
Avent
Anthony G
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Chemistry Laboratory, CPES School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK BN1 9QJ.
Taylor
Roger
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