Synthesis and Chemistry of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Curved Surfaces: Buckybowls

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Synthesis of Buckybowls Corannulene: A Synthetic Travel from “Wet” Chemistry … … to Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis … … and Back Practical Synthesis of Corannulene by Intramolecular Carbenoid Coupling of Dibromomethyl Groups Beyond Corannulene On the Surface of C 60 Molecular Architectures with Corannulene Scaffolds Large Systems with Corannulene Fragments Bowl‐to Bowl Inversion in Buckybowls Organometallic Derivatives of Buckybowls Alkali Metal Reduction Transition Metal Complexes Conclusions Experimental: Selected Procedures Preparation of Octabromide 11 from 10 Preparation of Corannulene from 11 by Low‐valent Vanadium Coupling Preparation of Tetrabromocorannulene from 11 by Carbenoid Coupling Preparation of 43 by Double Diels–Alder Reaction Preparation of 44 by Aluminum Cyclohexoxide Reduction of 43 Preparation of 45 Preparation of Dodecabromide 46 Preparation of Dicorannulenobarrelene 47