Intra- and intermolecular heavy-atom effects on the fluorescence properties of brominated C60 polyads.

A series of brominated mono-methano[60]fullerene malonate derivatives (two diads and one triad) are investigated for intramolecular and external heavy-atom effects on their fluorescence. Significant internal and external heavy-atom effects are observed in the three cases. It is shown that the internal effect doubles when going from the diads to the triad. In bromobenzene and in iodobenzene, the external effect is predominant, and diads and triad behave identically.

1,3-dipolar cycloadditions as a tool for the preparation of multivalent structures.

The construction of multivalent structures such as sugar heterodimers, glycoclusters, calix sugars, multicalixarenes, and glycocyclodextrins is designed by using 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition as a versatile and efficient tool which allows the creation of heterocyclic bridges between the different units that are coupled.