Facile Bucky‐Bowl Synthesis by Regiospecific Cove‐Region Closure by HF Elimination

Building bowls: An effective intramolecular aryl–aryl coupling is the key step in rational fullerene synthesis and in synthesis of extended buckybowl structures. Such a process can be embodied very efficiently through quantitative HF elimination on active Al2O3. The process is characterized by an unprecedentedly high chemoselectivity and regiospecificity. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.