Addition of Trimethylenemethanes

Oxidation of the hydroxyl group in 186 with pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC) in CH2CI2 affords the aldehyde 197. The reduction of 197 back to 186 is possible in EtOH in the presence of TiCl4, whereas upon treatment of 197 with diisobutyl-aluminium hydride a competitive reaction with the fullerene core was observed. 

HIV-protease. Examination of radiolabeled succinate 200 [202] provided information on the pharmacokinetic behavior of this water-soluble fullerene. A behavior similar to hydrophobic steroids was found, accompanied by a very low level of acute toxicity and the ability of 200 to penetrate the blood-brain barrier [162,195,199, 200, 203]. 

Further methods [205] successfully employed to synthesize fuUeropyrroUdines include acid-catalyzed [213] or thermal [214] desilylation of trimethylsilyl amino derivatives, tautomerization of a-aminoesters of immonium salts [215] and imines [216, 217], reaction with aldehydes in the presence of aqueous ammonia [218], reaction with oxazolidinone [204] or photochemical reaction with some amino derivatives [219-223], The reaction with amino acids and aldehydes was also carried 

Amine 212 was also coupled with peptides [233], acetic anhydride [215, 234], dinitrobenzoyl chloride [235] or a ferrocene carboxylic add chloride [215, 236] in good yields. Reaction with dinitrochlorobenzene [237] or dinitrofluorobenzene 

Reaction of 217 with Cjq leads to the amino-protected porphyrin-fulleropyrroli-dine, which can easily be deprotected to the corresponding amine [229, 277]. By further functionalization via amide coupling an easy access to extended donor-acceptor systems is possible. A carotene-porphyrin-fullerene triad was prepared by reaction of the amine with the appropriate carotene acid chloride. The motivation for the synthesis of all these donor-acceptor systems is the attempt to understand and imitate the photosynthetic process. On that score, a model for an artificial photosynthetic antenna-reaction center complex has been achieved by attaching five porphyrin cores in a dendrimer-like fashion to the fullerene [242]. 

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This represents the first metal-catalysed addition of trimethylenemethane to a carbon-nitrogen double bond. It has been demonstrated that trimethylenemethane can be added to aldehydes to give methylenetetrahydrofurans provided that a tin cocatalyst is added to the reaction mixture (Scheme 48.)70 Trimethylenemethane... 

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