Foreword
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...