Synthesis of a higher fullerene precursor-an "unrolled" C84 fullerene

Konstantin Amsharov; Martin Jansen

doi:10.1039/b901496a

Synthesis of a higher fullerene precursor-an "unrolled" C84 fullerene

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 May 21:(19):2691-3. doi: 10.1039/b901496a. Epub 2009 Mar 26.

Authors

Konstantin Amsharov¹, Martin Jansen

Affiliation

¹ Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.

PMID: 19532923
DOI: 10.1039/b901496a

Abstract

We report the synthesis of the C(84)(20)-fullerene related hydrocarbon C(84)H(42), which possesses more than 83% of the C(84)(20)-fullerene connectivity, and its selective transformation to C(84) by flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP).