Glow discharge synthesis and molecular structures of perchlorofluoranthene and other perchlorinated fragments of buckminsterfullerene

…, RB Huang, LH Chen, WJ Huang, LS Zheng

Index: Xie, Su-Yuan; Huang, Rong-Bin; Chen, Li-Hua; Huang, Wei-Jie; Zheng, Lan-Sun Chemical Communications, 1998 , # 18 p. 2045 - 2046

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Abstract

Although there have been a great many achievements in the experimental and theoretical investigation of fullerenes, their formation mechanism is still a puzzle to chemists and physicists.1 Various schemes have been put forward to explain the formation of fullerenes.2–7 Each of these schemes rationalise the available experimental evidence. None of them, however, can explain the formation process of the mid-sized inter- mediates (about 20–30 carbon atoms) and none show the ...