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(Invited) Organic Functionalization of Lithium-Ion-Endohedral Fullerenes

Thursday, 2 June 2016: 08:40
Aqua 311 B (Hilton San Diego Bayfront)
Y. Matsuo (The University of Tokyo)
Lithium-ion-containing fullerene Li+@C60 has very high electron affinity and low-lying LUMO level at -4.3 eV due to encapsulated positive charged lithium ion in the fullerene cage. Because of this property, reactivity of Li+@C60 on organic functionalization is very different from empty fullerene. In this presentation we will show the synthesis of lithium-ion-containing PCBM ([6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester) (Li+@PCBM). The [5,6]- and [6,6]-isomers of [Li+@PCBM]PF6 were successfully prepared, and the structure of [6,6]-[Li+@PCBM]PF6 was elucidated by X-ray crystallography. In addition, we will discuss reactivity of the Diels-Alder reaction on Li+@C60. The Diels–Alder (DA) reaction of fullerene is one of the most important reaction in the fullerene chemistry. We studied the reaction of Li+@C60 with cyclopentadiene, which were chosen as an diene, and found that this reaction was highly efficient, with an equilibrium constant that was more than 1000-fold that for the reaction with empty C60. The DA reaction of [Li+@C60](PF6) with 1,3-cyclohexadiene was also kinetically and computationally investigated to precisely determine the kinetic parameters. Compared with empty C60, Li+@C60 reacted 2400-fold faster at 303 K. The result was well explained by DFT calculation at the M06-2X/6-31G(d) level of theory considering the reactant complex with dispersion corrections as well as by the frontier molecular orbital theory.