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Sphere Currents of Buckminsterfullerene
Author(s) -
Johansson Mikael P.,
Jusélius Jonas,
Sundholm Dage
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200462348
Subject(s) - buckminsterfullerene , fullerene , aromaticity , ring (chemistry) , feature (linguistics) , current (fluid) , chemical physics , chemistry , ion , physics , computational chemistry , atomic physics , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , molecule , linguistics , philosophy
Global currents: Quantum chemical methodology has been used to investigate the magnetically induced currents of both neutral Buckminsterfullerene and its spherically aromatic +10 ion and has allowed quantitative measurement of the current strengths. Global sphere currents (see picture), instead of local ring currents, are found to be the defining feature of fullerene aromaticity.