Novel chemical derivatizations of C60, higher fullerenes and endohedral metallofullerenes with activated organosilicon compounds have been made to afford the mono- and bis-silylated fullerenes (silyl-fullerenes) in order to understand the basic chemical properties of fullerenes and to obtain new derivatives with interesting physical and chemical properties.
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Akasaka et al. (2000) studied this question.