TY - JOUR
T1 - Highly water soluble C60 derivatives
T2 - A new synthesis
AU - Arrais, Aldo
AU - Diana, Eliano
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors are indebted to Prof. Roberto Gobetto of University of Turin, Italy, for a helpful dicussion on acquired NMR spectra. Financial support from the MIUR (40% fund) is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Unprecedented protocol, consisting in reduction of Buckminsterfullerene with Na/K alloy and successive stirring in presence of O2, affords polyhydroxylated fullerenols which are highly water soluble, from strongly basic to medium acidic conditions. The products have been characterized by means of cross polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR, 1H-NMR, electron, FT-IR, Raman and mass spectroscopies. Possible paths of reaction and the role of molecular oxygen in fullerene cage-oxidation are discussed.
AB - Unprecedented protocol, consisting in reduction of Buckminsterfullerene with Na/K alloy and successive stirring in presence of O2, affords polyhydroxylated fullerenols which are highly water soluble, from strongly basic to medium acidic conditions. The products have been characterized by means of cross polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR, 1H-NMR, electron, FT-IR, Raman and mass spectroscopies. Possible paths of reaction and the role of molecular oxygen in fullerene cage-oxidation are discussed.
KW - Fullerene
KW - Solid state spectroscopies
KW - Water solubility
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U2 - 10.1081/FST-120018667
DO - 10.1081/FST-120018667
M3 - Article
SN - 1536-383X
VL - 11
SP - 35
EP - 46
JO - Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures
JF - Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures
IS - 1
ER -