When buckminsterfullerene was discovered in 1985, 1 Kroto suggested that it could be “the
first example of a spherical aromatic molecule”. Later, at about the time when Krätschmer …

The electron-accepting ability of C60, the archetypal fullerene, is its most characteristic
chemical property. It is a natural consequence of electronic structure and was anticipated in …

The electrochemical behavior of fullerene and fullerene derivatives are reviewed with
special reference to their catalytic and sensor applications. Recent work on carbon …

The addition of two unsymmetric malonate esters to the Buckminster fullerene C60 can lead
to 22 spectroscopically distinguishable isomeric products and therefore represents a …

Highly functionalized fullerenes can be efficiently constructed by various techniques.
However, the challenge is to synthesize highly symmetrical fullerenes. Recently, a number …

The covalent functionalization of buckminsterfullerene, C60, has developed dramatically
over the past eight years, and a great diversity of synthetic protocols for the formation of …

The macrocyclization between buckminsterfullerene, C60, and bis‐malonate derivatives in
double Bingel reaction provides a versatile and simple method for the preparation of …

A sophisticated model of the natural light-harvesting antenna has been devised by
decorating a C60 hexa-adduct with ten yellow and two blue boron dipyrromethene (Bodipy) …

The fullerenes, hailed as one of the discoveries of the century, have created whole new
fields of organic/organometallic chemistry and of physics. Together with the related …

The frontier orbitals of 22 isolated and characterized C60 (CF3) n derivatives, including
seven reported here for the first time, have been investigated by electronic spectroscopy (n …