Synthesis of Fullerene Fragments by Transition Metal-Catalyzed Arylations

摘要

Part of the recent interest on the chemistry of bowl-shaped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (polyarenes) stays on their potential use as starting materials for the development of syntheses of the fullerenes alternative to those based on the vaporization of graphite.Indeed,fullerenes have been formed pyrolytically in low yield from aromatic hydrocarbons such as naphthalene and corannulene.Additionally,the development of practical syntheses of functionalised bowl-shaped polyarenes should allow for the construction of fullerene-like molecular cages with polycyclic aromatic substructures.