Rationalisation of the most stable isomer of a fullerene C n
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2
- No. 1,p. 3-4
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p29920000003
Abstract
It is proposed that if each isomeric carbon cage for a given fullerene Cn is constructed such that no five-membered ring contains a double bond, then the most stable isomer is that containing the highest number of benzenoid rings (i.e. those with alternating double and single bonds). Fullerenes in which a high proportion of the hexagonal rings are benzenoid are very stable, e.g. C60, C70, C78, C84 and C90; the method correctly predicts the most stable isomer of C76.Keywords
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