A. Hamwi et V. Marchand, OXIDIZED FULLERENE DERIVATIVES CONTAINING HYDROXYL, NITRO AND FLUORINE GROUPS, Fullerene science and technology, 4(5), 1996, pp. 835-851
Oxidation of fullerene was performed with fuming nitric acid and a sol
uble orange compound was synthesized and identified as polyhydroxy-pol
ynitro fullerene. The formation of fullerene derivatives containing ox
ygen and fluorine were attempted by different methods using F-2, HF aq
ueous solution and fuming nitric acid. Resulting compounds were genera
lly characterized by X-ray diffraction and IR and NMR spectroscopy.