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Chemistry
2018
Chemistry 2018
Journal of Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN 2472-1123
F e b r u a r y 1 9 - 2 0 , 2 0 1 8
P a r i s , F r a n c e
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lectrochemical organic reactions have attracted increasing attentions of
organic chemists. Fullerenes and their derivatives are electron-deficient
molecules, and therefore they are electrophiles. If they are reduced by
controlled potential electrolysis (CPE) and thus would undergo an umpolung
process, the formed negatively charged fullerenes and fullerene derivatives
are nucleophiles. I will present our recent progress in the electrochemical
reactions of fullerene derivatives. Several types of natural fullerene derivatives,
which were synthesized by the methodologies developed by us, can be
reduced to dianionic species by CPE. The formed dianionic species can then
react with different electrophiles such as benzyl bromide, ethyl bromoacetate,
diethyl bromomalonate, acyl chlorides, and chloroformates to provide new
functionalized fullerenes with new addition patterns.
Biography
Guan-Wu Wang is currently a full time Professor at the Univer-
sity of Science and Technology of China. He obtained his BS,
MS and PhD from Lanzhou University in 1987, 1990, 1993,
respectively. He then did his Postdoctoral work at Fudan Uni-
versity, Kyoto University, University of Kentucky, University
of Chicago and Yale University. In May of 2000 he joined the
University of Science and Technology of China as an awardee
of the ‘‘Hundred Talents Program’’ of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (1999). He was awarded a National Science Fund
for Distinguished Young Scholars (2001). He currently serves
an Editorial Board Member of
Chinese Science Bulletin, Chinese
Journal of Organic Chemistry, Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemis-
try, Current Organocatalysis, Acta Chimica Sinica, and Current
Organic Chemistry.
He has published over 200 scientific papers.
His research interests include fullerene chemistry, mechano-
chemistry and C-H activation reactions.
gwang@ustc.edu.cnElectrochemical reactions based on [60] fullerene derivatives
Guan-Wu Wang
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Guan-Wu Wang, J Org Inorg Chem 2018, Volume: 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C1-002