Infrared Spectrum of the Au–C60 Complex

✍ Scribed by Jonathan T. Lyon; Lester Andrews

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1439-4235
• DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200400467

✦ Synopsis

The nature of the carbon-metal interaction is fundamentally important in science and industry. Carbon clusters play vital roles in such diverse areas as interstellar space and soot formation, [1] and C 60 is an elegant example. Since the discovery of buckminsterfullerenes in 1985, [2] these molecules have attracted considerable attention. Accordingly, many useful applications for C 60 have been found in numerous fields of science, which include, for example, organometallics, [3] supramolecular species, [4][5][6] surface science, [7,8] medicine, [9] superconductors, [10][11][12][13][14] and astrophysics. [1,15,16] Despite understanding the infrared (4T 1u ) and Raman active (2A g + 8H g ) vibrations of C 60 , a complete vibrational analysis of this molecule is still being de-

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