Mr. Banks et al., CHEMICAL-TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE SURFACE OF [60]FULLERENE - SYNTHESIS OF [60]FULLERENO[1',2' 4,5]OXAZOLIDIN-2-ONE/, Tetrahedron letters, 35(48), 1994, pp. 9067-9070
Base-induced alpha-elimination from substituted O-4-nitrophenylsulfony
lhydroxamic acids has been used as a mild source of nitrenes for captu
re by [60]fullerene; rearrangment of the resulting [60]fullereno[1',2'
:2,3]aziridine bearing a N-ethoxycarbonyl grouping under the influence
of phenol/chlorotrimethylsilane results in the quantitative formation
of the title compound which can be cleaved to yield 1-hydroxy-2-N-met
hylamino[60]fullerene.