Part Six

 Is This Really the Way We Should Expect Science to Work?

a lot of excitement in the research community

but

Focus of Current Research:

Isolation and characterization of higher fullerenes

Chemistry of C60 and C70

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Some Principles of Fullerene Chemistry:

  • C60 is quite reactive undergoing oxidation, reduction and addition reactions
  • can have reactions both inside and outside the cluster
  • can exploit the template effect
  • there may be a "spherical aromatic chemistry"

Endohedral metal complexes

Clusters with hetero atoms

Super- and semiconducting metal complexes

Polymers containing fullerenes 

Buckytubes

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  • Flick Coleman wcoleman@wellesley.edu
  • Dept. of Chemistry
  • Date Created: Mar 4, 1997
  • Last Modified: July 11, 1998
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