Synthesis of a green [60]fullerene derivative through cage-opening reactions†‡ Shuming Liu,abd Changqi Zhang,ac Xiang Xie,ac Yuming Yu,ab Zhifei Dai,ac Yuanhua Shao,ac Liangbing Gan*abc and Yuliang Liab Author affiliations * Corresponding authors a Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China E-mail: gan@pku.edu.cn b CAS Key Laboratory for Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China c Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871 d Department of Chemistry, Handan College 056005, China Abstract Open-cage derivative C60(O)4(OH)2(NC6H4tBu)2 reacts with ICl to form a Baeyer–Villiger type product, which yields an intense green product upon treatment with HI. This article is part of the themed collection: Aromaticity You have access to this article Please wait while we load your content... Something went wrong. Try again?