Chemistry Letters, Vol.47, No.6, 736-739, 2018
Internal-peripheral Diosmylation of Sumanene Overcoming the Dearomatization Hurdle by the Distortion of the Curved pi-System
Sumanene, a C-3v-symmetric pristine buckybowl, afforded a dearomatization reaction with OsO4 to give the di-adduct at both the internal and peripheral positions. Density functional theory (DFT) calculation revealed that the distortion of the curved system significantly decreased the energy barrier for the dearomatization.