Our work led by Yue Sun, is accepted by Angewandte Chemie! This work receives open access and can be seen at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anie.202424776
In this work, we report an inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction on endohedral metallofullerenes where the metallofullerenes act as electron donors and show higher reactivity than empty fullerenes. Moreover, the cycloadduct could undergo retroaddition upon thermal treatment, enabling a new chemical separation approach for metallofullerenes in bulk synthesis.
We thank the collaboration from Prof. Stevenson of Purdue Fort Wayne, Prof. Anyin Li of University of New Hampshire, and Profs. Josep Poblet and Antonio Rodriguez of Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Zhang Lab @ Rutgers CCB 