Abstract
The existence of C607+ and spontaneous decay of this ion via the superasymmetric fission reaction C607+C586+ + C2+ have been observed and studied by isotope-resolved two-sector-field mass spectrometric techniques, thereby allowing the unambiguous identification of the septuply charged fullerene ion and the experimental determination of the rather large kinetic energy release of 9.7 ± 2.2 eV for the separating fragment ions.

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