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  • Title: Highly curved bowl-shaped fragments of fullerenes: synthesis, structural analysis, and physical properties.
    Author: Chen MK, Hsin HJ, Wu TC, Kang BY, Lee YW, Kuo MY, Wu YT.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2014 Jan 07; 20(2):598-608. PubMed ID: 24311153.
    Abstract:
    Highly curved buckybowls 3, 4, and 5 were synthesized from planar precursors, fluoranthenes 8, benzo[k]fluoranthenes 10 and naphtho[1,2-k]-cyclopenta[cd]fluoranthenes 12, respectively, using straightforward palladium-catalyzed cyclization reactions. These fluoranthene-based starting materials were easily prepared from 1,8-bis(arylethynyl)naphthalenes 6. Both buckybowls 3 and 4 are fragments of C60 , whereas 5 is a unique subunit of C70 . The curved structures were identified by X-ray crystallography, and they are deep bowls. The maximum π-orbital axis vector (POAV) pyramidalization angle in both 3 and 4 is 12.8°. Such a high curvature is very rarely obtained. Buckybowls 5 are less curved than the others because they have a lower density of five-membered rings, analogous to the tube portion of C70 . Cyclopentaannulation increases the bowl depths of 3 and 4, but not the maximum POAV pyramidalization angle. Among the eight buckybowls studied herein, five form polar crystals. The bowl-to-bowl inversion dynamics of these buckybowls can be classified into two types; one has a planar transition structure, whereas the other has an S-shaped transition structure. A larger longitudinal length of these buckybowls corresponds to a stronger preference for the latter. The photophysical properties of these buckybowls were examined and compared with those of C60 and C70 . Buckybowls 5 have absorption bands at wavelengths greater than 450 nm, which are similar to those of C70 . The chiral resolution of the mono-substituted buckybowl 4 ac was also studied by using HPLC with a chiral column.
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