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Amino acid esters react with C60 both thermally and
photochemically to give different products.
Refluxing a mixture of C60 and glycine ethyl ester
afforded C60(Me2CHNHCHCOOEt) 1,
whereas
irradiation of the same mixture produced
C60(EtOOCCHNHCHCOOEt) 2b as the main
product.
Photochemical reactions between C60 and sarcosine
esters yielded two pyrrolidine derivatives
C60(CH2N(Me)CHCOOR) 3 and
C60(ROOCCHNHCHCOOR) 2 (R = Me, Et,
CH2Ph). Compound 2a is
also prepared from the photochemical reaction between C60
and iminodiacetic methyl ester in high
yield. These ester derivatives are difficult to hydrolyze in
excess mineral acids. The fullerene
dicarboxylic acid C60(HOOCCHNHCHCOOH) 5 is
synthesized from the tert-butyl derivative
C60(tBuOOCCHNHCHCOOtBu) 4. A possible
radical reaction mechanism for the photochemical
reactions is proposed which involves an unprecedented C−N bond
breakage.
Aminopolycarboxylic esters react with C60
under photolysis to produce fullerene multicarboxylates.
Irradiation of tetramethyl ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) with
C60 yields the EDTA-containing
fullerene monoadduct
C60(MeOOCCH)2NCH2CH2N(CH2COOMe)2.
In addition, several other C60
monoadducts are also isolated and characterized, including compounds
due to EDTA fragmentation.
Similar results are observed with
pentamethyldimethylenetriaminepentaacetate (DTPA).
When
partially methylated nitrilotriacetic acid is irradiated with
C60, decarboxylation occurs and
organodihydrofullerene derivatives such as
C60(H)(CH2N(CH2COOMe)2)
are formed. Radical
mechanisms are proposed for both types of photoreactions. The
fullerene derivatives are
characterized by their spectroscopic data. Photoreactions of
C60 with other analogous molecules
also support the conclusions.
[reaction: see text] tert-Butylperoxy radicals add to [70]fullerene to form a mixture of adducts C(70)(OO(t)()Bu)(n)() (n = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10). Four isomers were isolated for the bis-adduct with the two tert-butylperoxo groups attached at 1,2-, 5,6-, 7,23-, and 2,5-positions, respectively. Two isomers were isolated for the tetrakis-adduct with the tert-butylperoxo groups located along the equator in C(s)() symmetry and on the side in C(1) symmetry, respectively. Similarly, two isomers were isolated for the hexakis-adducts with a structure related to the tetrakis-adducts, one of which has the cyclopentadienyl substructure. No isomer was detected for the octakis- and decakis-adducts. The C(s)()-symmetric octakis- and C(2)-symmetric decakis-adducts have all the tert-butylperoxo groups located along the equator. The decakis-adduct is the major product under optimized conditions. The compounds were characterized by their spectroscopic data. Chemical correlation through further addition of tert-butylperoxy radicals to isolated pure derivatives confirmed the structure assignment. Mechanisms of the tert-butylperoxy radical addition to C(70) follow two pathways: equatorial addition along the belt and cyclopentadienyl addition on the side.
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