Synthetic Approaches to Endohedral Complexes and Highly Functional Derivatives of Fullerene C60

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。 该项目将继续致力于开发一种设计合理的化学官能化方法，用于破坏富勒烯笼内的键。 在这些开放的富勒烯内插入原子或小分子之后，将进行再封闭反应，以再生具有其捕获物质的完整富勒烯。 这些方法最终旨在大规模制备内嵌金属富勒烯，这些物质已经对富勒烯化学和物理领域产生了强烈的影响。 有了这个奖项，有机和高分子化学计划正在支持洛杉矶的加州大学化学和生物化学系的Yves Rubin教授的研究。 Rubin教授的研究工作集中在开发功能化富勒烯的有机合成方法，以利用这种碳分子形式的许多理想物理特性。 这些富勒烯衍生物的合成将对富勒烯在光伏器件或磁共振成像等技术领域的发展和未来应用产生影响。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will continue work on the development of a designed, rational chemical functionalization approach for breaking bonds within fullerene cages. Insertion of atoms or small molecules inside these open fullerenes will be followed by re-closure reactions to regenerate the integral fullerenes with their entrapped species. These methods are ultimately aimed at the large scale preparation of endohedral metallofullerenes, species that are already having a strong impact on the field of fullerene chemistry and physics. With this award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the research of Professor Yves Rubin of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Rubin's research efforts are focused on the development of organic synthetic approaches to functionalized fullerenes to take advantage of the numerous ideal physical properties of this molecular form of carbon. The synthesis of these fullerene derivatives will have an impact on the development and future application of fullerenes in technological fields like photovoltaic devices or magnetic resonance imaging, among others.