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Pure Appl. Chem., 2012, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 1027-1037

http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/PAC-CON-11-08-21

Published online 2011-12-14

Copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition for the functionalization of fullerene building blocks

Jean-François Nierengarten

Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France

Abstract: In this paper, we report our ongoing progress in the preparation of fullerene-azide or fullerene-alkyne building blocks, allowing their further chemical transformation under the copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction conditions.