Résumé
Heating a mixture of [60]fullerene,
N-methylglycine (sarcosine), and a sugar aldehyde in refluxing toluene resulted in the formation of a complex mixture of products from which the fulleropyrrolidine monocycloadduct was isolated in 14, 10, and 12% yield for formyl
C-galactopyranoside, formyl
C-glucopyranoside, and formyl
C-mannofuranoside, respectively.
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