Gas-phase production and photoelectron spectroscopy of the smallest fullerene, C20

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6800, 2000, Pages 60-63

  Prinzbach, Horst ^a   Weller, Andreas ^a   Landenberger, Peter ^a   Wahl, Fablan ^a   Wörth, Jürgen ^a   Scott, Lawrence T ^b   Gelmont, Marc ^b   Olevano, Daniela ^a   Issendorff, Bernd V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEBROMINATION; GAS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0034618555     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35024037     Document Type: Article

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