Taming superacids: Stabilization of the fullerene cations HC60+ and C60·+

Science

Volumn 289, Issue 5476, 2000, Pages 101-104

  Reed, Christopher A ^a   Kim, Kee Chan ^a   Bolskar, Robert D ^a   Mueller, Leonard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; CATION; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ACIDS; ANIONS; CARBON; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; FULLERENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034617119     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5476.101     Document Type: Article

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