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Foreword It has been a great pleasure to serve as Guest Editors for the publication of this special issue on "Fullerenes, Photoexcited States and Reactive Intermediates." Curl, Kroto and Smalley performed experiments focusing on the production of carbon clusters. The particularly high stability of clusters of 60 carbon atoms (C60) suggested a molecular structure of great symmetry. It was proposed that C60 could be a "truncated icosahedron cage", a polyhedron with 20 hexagonal surfaces and 12 pentagonal surfaces. The break through for large scale production of Buckminsterfullerene (C60) and its higher analogues (C70, C76, C78, C84, etc.) by Kr~itschmer et al. immediately stimulated broad and interdisciplinary research concerned with the chemical and physical properties of these pure carbon allot-ropes. The relative ease of its chromatographic separation from other fullerenes, the lack of any coexisting isomers, and the intriguing spherical symmetry of icosahedral C6o have put this most abundant fullerene into a central focus. The recent decision of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Rice University, Houston, USA), Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto (University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.), and Professor Richard E. Smalley (Rice University, Houston, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Research on Chemical Intermediates Springer Journals

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It has been a great pleasure to serve as Guest Editors for the publication of this special issue on "Fullerenes, Photoexcited States and Reactive Intermediates." Curl, Kroto and Smalley performed experiments focusing on the production of carbon clusters. The particularly high stability of clusters of 60 carbon atoms (C60) suggested a molecular structure of great symmetry. It was proposed that C60 could be a "truncated icosahedron cage", a polyhedron with 20 hexagonal...
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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by Springer
Subject
Chemistry; Catalysis; Physical Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN
0922-6168
eISSN
1568-5675
DOI
10.1163/156856797X00132
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Abstract

It has been a great pleasure to serve as Guest Editors for the publication of this special issue on "Fullerenes, Photoexcited States and Reactive Intermediates." Curl, Kroto and Smalley performed experiments focusing on the production of carbon clusters. The particularly high stability of clusters of 60 carbon atoms (C60) suggested a molecular structure of great symmetry. It was proposed that C60 could be a "truncated icosahedron cage", a polyhedron with 20 hexagonal surfaces and 12 pentagonal surfaces. The break through for large scale production of Buckminsterfullerene (C60) and its higher analogues (C70, C76, C78, C84, etc.) by Kr~itschmer et al. immediately stimulated broad and interdisciplinary research concerned with the chemical and physical properties of these pure carbon allot-ropes. The relative ease of its chromatographic separation from other fullerenes, the lack of any coexisting isomers, and the intriguing spherical symmetry of icosahedral C6o have put this most abundant fullerene into a central focus. The recent decision of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Rice University, Houston, USA), Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto (University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.), and Professor Richard E. Smalley (Rice University, Houston,

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Research on Chemical IntermediatesSpringer Journals

Published: Apr 14, 2009

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