The valence of small fullerenes

✍ Scribed by C. Milani; C. Giambelli; H.E. Roman; F. Alasia; G. Benedek; R.A. Broglia; S. Sanguinetti; K. Yabana

• Book ID: 103036809
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 349 KB
• Volume: 258
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(96)00699-9

✦ Synopsis

The production and isolation of small fullerenes and of their stable compounds and the knowledge of their chemistry should pave the way to the syntesis of novel carbon-based cluster-assembled materials like carbon clathrates, hollow diamonds and diamond-like thin films. In this quest, the knowledge of the valence of the small fullerenes is essential. We report here that the small fullerenes C, (20 < n < 32), aside from the well known values associated with the local one electron picture of dangling bonds, display hidden valences connected with the free electron picture of the shell structure of w-electrons.