One method of trapping these molecules uses a molecular tweezer made of two bent corannulene units, and they can be purified by using DBU and trimethylbenzene.
One method of trapping these molecules uses a molecular tweezer made of two bent corannulene units, and they can be purified by using DBU and trimethylbenzene. They undergo 1,3 dipolar addition with azomethine ylides in the Prato reaction, and one method of synthesizing them is named for Huffman and Kratschmer. The endohedral type has another molecule trapped inside, and they were first isolated from soot using a laser by Kroto, Smalley and Curl. The most well-known of these compounds has the shape of a truncated icosahedron. FTP, name this most recently discovered allotrope of carbon, named after the creator of the geodesic dome.
One method of trapping these molecules uses a molecular tweezer made of two bent corannulene units, and they can be purified by using DBU and trimethylbenzene.
Buckminster{fullerene}