Fullerene sugar balls.

Authors :: Nierengarten JF
Iehl J
Oerthel V
Holler M
Illescas BM
Muñoz A
Martín N
Rojo J
Sánchez-Navarro M
Cecioni S
Vidal S
Buffet K
Durka M
Vincent SP
Source :: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) [Chem Commun (Camb)] 2010 Jun 14; Vol. 46 (22), pp. 3860-2. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Apr 23.
Publication Year :: 2010
Abstract: Fullerene hexakis-adducts bearing 12 peripheral carbohydrate moieties have been prepared by grafting sugar derivatives onto the fullerene core through the copper mediated Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides and alkynes.