Special Issue "Cycloaddition Reactions in Organic Synthesis"

Guest Editor
Dr. Janis Louie
Department of Chemisty, the University of Utah, 315 S, 1400 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Interests: Catalytic Activation of Heterocumulenes; Ni-Catalyzed Rearrangements: Rapid Entry to Carbocycles; CO2 Sequestering Agents

Dear Colleagues,

Cycloaddition reactions provide rapid access to natural and unnatural compounds of medicinal interest or intermediates useful for functional materials. In general, cycloadditions represent an efficient entry to ring systems and require readily available starting materials. In addition, many cycloaddition reactions tolerate a wide variety of functional groups. The focus of this special issue is to present papers that cover both fundamental and applied contributions in this field. Special attention will be paid to the development of new methodologies, mechanistic analysis of existing methodologies, and applications of cycloaddition reactions toward the synthesis of pharmalogically or industrially relevant materials.

Prof. Dr. Janis Louie
Guest Editor

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• cycloaddition
• metal catalyzed organic transformations
• organocatalyzed transformations
• asymmetric catalysis
• mechanistic analysis
• medicinal chemistry

Type of Paper: Review
Title: Cycloaddition Reactions in C60 and their Implementation into Electronic Devices
Author: Thomas Wagberg
Affiliation: Umeå Universitet, Department of Physics, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden; E-Mail: thomas.wagberg@physics.umu.se
Abstract: The cycloaddition reaction in C60 fullerenes can transform monomeric C60 fullerenes and fullerene derivatives into a large variety of polymer structures. Recently this has been utilized to both stabilize and modify the electronic performance of fullerenes in field effect transistors. The first part of this comprehensive review gives a short background of the different methods that can be used to obtain cycloaddition reactions in C60 fullerenes, both in bulk, as thin films and in confined spaces in carbon nanotubes. The main focus lies however on the second part which focuses on how cycloaddition reactions are used to modify the electronic performance of these compounds in thin field effect transistors and how this can be used in a simple fashion for micro patterning of such electronic devices.