Pentagon adjacency as a determinant of fullerene stability

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2913-2918

  Albertazzi, E ^a   Domene, C ^b   Fowler, P W ^b   Heine, T ^b   Seifert, G ^c   Van Alsenoy, C ^d   Zerbetto, F ^e  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GEOMETRY; ISOMER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0033564930     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a901600g     Document Type: Article

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