Controlling the reactivity of La@C82 by reduction: reaction of the La@C82 anion with alkyl halide with high regioselectivity
Yutaka Maeda, Saeka Akita, Mitsuaki Suzuki, Michio Yamada, Takeshi Akasaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Shigeru Nagase · 2023
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Yutaka Maeda and co-authors report a 2023 study of a fullerene cage that holds a lanthanum atom inside it. Such cages have strong redox traits, which can be used to change how they react with other compounds. The team asked whether adding one electron would make the cage react with alkyl halides, a class it normally ignores.
Heated with benzyl bromide forms, the charged cage gave single-bond products with high site choice. The plain cage showed no such reaction under the same heat. Crystal tests pinned down where the added group sits, and math models linked that site to spin spread in the cage.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yutaka Maeda, Saeka Akita, Mitsuaki Suzuki, Michio Yamada, Takeshi Akasaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Shigeru Nagase |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |