J. Averdung et al., AZA-DIHYDRO[60]FULLERENE IN THE GAS-PHASE - A MASS-SPECTROMETRIC AND QUANTUMCHEMICAL STUDY, Tetrahedron, 51(25), 1995, pp. 6977-6982
A new approach to produce heterofullerenes is described. Starting from
a fullerene with an intact cage which is activated by suitable exohed
ral functionalization, the first aza-heterofullerene is generated in t
he gas phase under DCl mass-spectrometric conditions. On the basis of
AMl-calculations the 1,2-closed structure is proposed to be the most s
table one.