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The Third Allotropic Form of Carbon
Author(s) -
Stoddart J. Fraser
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199100701
Subject(s) - carbon fibers , reactivity (psychology) , molecule , chemistry , organic molecules , nanotechnology , materials science , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , composite number , composite material
For many chemists, the molecules of the year 1990 are C 60 and C 70 . The recent report of an efficient route of preparation—organic chemists might disagree with the word synthesis—has sparked numerous investigations into the structure, chemical reactivity, and electro‐ and photochemical behavior of these species. In 1991, we can expect to learn much more about this third modification of carbon (the picture on the right, which shows crystals of C 70 (actually cornflower blue) was provided by F. Diederich , Los Angeles).