Carving two adjacent holes on [60]fullerene through two consecutive epoxide to diol to dione transformations

Zuo Xiao, Jiayao Yao, Yuming Yu, Zhenshan Jia, Liangbing Gan

Chemical Communications · 2010 · 16 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Repeated acid catalyzed epoxide opening and oxidation of the resulting diol with diacetoxyiodobenzene led to two 10-membered orifices on C(60) cage.

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