Journal of Organic & Inorganic Chemistry

Electrochemical reactions based on [60] fullerene derivatives

EuroSciCon Conference on Chemistry 2018
February 19-20, 2018 Paris, France

Guan-Wu Wang

University of Science and Technology of China, China

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Org Inorg Chem

DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C1-002

Abstract

Electrochemical 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 University 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 University, 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 Chemistry, Current Organocatalysis, Acta Chimica Sinica, and Current Organic Chemistry. He has published over 200 scientific papers. His research interests include fullerene chemistry, mechanochemistry and C-H activation reactions.
Email:gwang@ustc.edu.cn