title: NBS-promoted oxidation of fullerene monoradicals leading to regioselective 1,4-difunctional fullerenes.
abstract: We have demonstrated that NBS is able to promote the oxidation of fullerene monoradicals to form 1,4-difunctional fullerenes. The singly bonded fullerene dimers were used as fullerene monoradical precursors, which produced various 1,4-fullerenes with a wide range of functional groups in good to high yields with high regioselectivity in terms of cosolvents and nucleophiles.
authors.affiliation: WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan. tjin@m.tohoku.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Weili
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Si
authors.forename: Shirong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Asao
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Tienan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jin