As a preliminary step in our quest for 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydro derivatives of C60—which should ring-open spontaneously in a retro [2+2+2] fashion to form a large orifice permitting the introduction of metals into the fullerene cage—we have created a family of highly congested 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrobuckminsterfullerene derivatives 1.
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Rubin et al. (1999) studied this question.