Polystyrene hexa-adducts of higher fullerenes

Citation
R. Nuffer et al., Polystyrene hexa-adducts of higher fullerenes, SYNTH METAL, 121(1-3), 2001, pp. 1151-1152
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
SYNTHETIC METALS
ISSN journal
03796779 → ACNP
Volume
121
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
1151 - 1152
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-6779(20010315)121:1-3<1151:PHOHF>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Polystyryl-lithium of low polydispersity has been reacted with C-60, C-70, C-84 and C-96 in a non-polar solvent. Star-shaped polymers were always obta ined and in all cases the maximum number of grafts attached to the fulleren e was found to be 6. This upper limit is a consequence of the fact that the number of pentagons stays constant whatever is the size of the fullerene. In order to get the needed reactive double bond, the pentagones have to for m a pyracyclene unit (2 pentagons and 2 hexagons). The number of pentagons being always 12, no more than 6 chains can be grafted on a fullerene by thi s kind of chemistry.