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Fluorofullerenes hold the promise of being useful synthetic intermediates, because of the ease with which they undergo nucleophilic substitution. However, the progress in this field has been hampered by the difficulty in controlling fluorination for the preparation of fluorofullerenes of either low, or specific fluorine content. In this paper, previous work is described together with the latest developments involving the use of metal fluorides as fluorinating species. The availability of specific fluorofullerenes has made it possible to make the first detailed studies of the nucleophilic substitution reactions.
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Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 852–861, May, 1998.
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Taylor, R. Progress in fullerene fluorination. Russ Chem Bull 47, 823–832 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02498148
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02498148