Teng Qiaoqiao, Tan Yi-Chen, Miao Chun-Bao, Sun Xiao-Qiang, Yang Hai-Tao
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advanced Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, School of Petrochemical Engineering , Changzhou University , Changzhou 213164 , China.
J Org Chem. 2018 Dec 21;83(24):15268-15276. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02547. Epub 2018 Dec 11.
A tunable copper-catalyzed reaction of C with 2-ethoxycarbonylacetamides using air as the oxidant has been explored, which selectively affords methanofullerenes (2) and dihydrofuran-fused fullerenes (3) under the CuI/DMAP and CuCl/NMI catalytic systems, respectively. Furthermore, the generated dihydrofuran-fused fullerenes could be transformed to fulleropyrrolidinones (4 and 5) upon treatment with BF·EtO.