Stone–Wales pyracylene transformations of the isomers of C84
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 5,p. 408-410
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39920000408
Abstract
Under the Stone–Wales (pyracylene) transformation, the 24 isolated-pentagon isomers of C84 fall into two disjoint families, each containing one leapfrog closed shell, suggesting that the experimental product will consist of a mixture of two isomers.Keywords
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