Electronic Structure and Chemical Reactivity of Carbon Nanotubes: A Chemist's View
- 14 May 2004
- journal article
- concept
- Published by Wiley in Chemphyschem
- Vol. 5 (5) , 619-624
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.200301049
Abstract
A qualitative description of the electronic structure of single-wall carbon nanotubes from a chemical perspective is presented using real-space orbital representations and traditional concepts of aromaticity, orbital symmetry and frontier orbitals. This unusual view of carbon nanotubes allows us to merge the solid-state physics description of band structures with the molecular orbitals framework of reaction mechanisms used in organic chemistry and to predict intriguing chemical selectivity based on electronic structure.Keywords
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