摘要:
Recently, it has been shown that visible light irradiation of a mixture of C-60 and glycine methyl-ester in the presence of oxygen is a direct route to sequentially synthesize higher FP poly-adducts. However, the involved mechanism and the maximum number of pyrrolidine adducts per C-60 molecule remained to be ascertained. Using high resolution mass spectrometry and HPLC-MS, we show here that the most probable mechanism involves a first step of azomethine ylide (AMY) formation followed by its [2+3] cyclo-addition to C-60, and that the hexakis-adduct is the highest FP poly-adduct (FPPA) obtained under these conditions. Some FPPA and AMY dimers are also identified in the final mixture. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.