The Fullerenes

by Kroto, H. W.; Fischer, John E.; Cox, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780080421520
• ISBN10: 0080421520
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-03-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd

Summary

Until recently, the element carbon was believed to exhibit only two main allotropic forms, diamond and graphite. Research in the US and Europe has now confirmed the existence of a third previously unknown form - buckminsterfullerene ( C 60 ) and its relatives, the fullerenes ( C 24 , C 28 , C 32 , C 70 etc ). The story of fullerene chemistry, physics and materials science began in 1985, almost twenty years after the existence of a spherical carbon cluster was first considered. In September 1985 a joint Sussex/Rice Universities team including Kroto, Heath, O'Brien, Curl and Smalley used a powerful mass spectrometric technique to identify the C + 60 species, and proposed a spherical structure and the name buckminsterfullerene. It was not, however, until Krauml;tschmer and Huffman reported the isolation of crystals of C 60 in 1990 that the closed cage structure of C 60 could be confirmed. The Fullerenes documents the work leading up to 1990 and more recent developments in the field of fullerene research and will serve as an indispensible reference tool for all workers in this area.

Table of Contents

The Fullerenes
Introduction	p. 1
Fullerites: New forms of crystalline carbon	p. 5
Pre-1990 evidence for the fullerene proposal	p. 11
Molecular beam studies of fullerenes	p. 19
Fullerenes and giant fullerenes: Synthesis, separation, and mass spectrometric characterization	p. 29
Fullerenes synthesis in combustion	p. 45
Chemical reactivity and functionalization of C[subscript 60] and C[subscript 70] fullerenes	p. 65
Some well characterized chemical reactivities of buckminsterfullerene (C[subscript 60])	p. 75
Electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of amorphous carbons and the discovery of the fullerenes	p. 89
Isomerisations of the fullerenes	p. 97
The geometry of hypothetical curved graphite structures	p. 113
Superconducting and normal state properties of the A[subscript 3]C[subscript 60] compounds	p. 123
Fullerenes and fullerides in the solid state: Neutron scattering studies	p. 139
Physics and Chemistry of Fullerene-Based Solids
Introduction	p. 149
Synthesis and characterization of alkali metal fullerides: A[subscript x]C[subscript 60]	p. 151
Structure, dynamics and ordering transition of solid C[subscript 60]	p. 163
Neutron scattering studies of C[subscript 60] and its compounds	p. 183
Structures of C[subscript 60] intercalation compounds	p. 203
Optical phonon modes in solid and doped C[subscript 60]	p. 221
Electron energy loss spectroscopy of C[subscript 60] fullerite films	p. 245
High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy of epitaxial films of C[subscript 60] grown on GaSe	p. 257
Electronic structures of C[subscript 60], C[subscript 70] and the fullerides: Photoemission and inverse photoemission studies	p. 263
Buckminsterfullerene C[subscript 60] and organic ferromagnetism	p. 279
Electronic structures of C[subscript 60] fullerides and related materials	p. 287
Superconductivity in alkali intercalated C[subscript 60]	p. 303
Subject Index	p. 315
Author Index	p. 317
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