Theoretical studies of icosahedral C 60 and some related species
Abstract
There are many stable C 60 structures other than the icosahedral one proposed by Kroto, Heath, O'Brien, Curl and Smalley. They are related to each other by transformations involving the movement of two atoms. These transformations are thermally forbidden in the Woodward-Hoffmann sense (though photochemically allowed) and the observed C 60 mass peak is likely to arise from a mixture of isomers.
- Publication:
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Chemical Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0009-2614(86)80661-3
- Bibcode:
- 1986CPL...128..501S