C62, a non-classical fullerene incorporating a four-membered ring [18]

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 122, Issue 34, 2000, Pages 8333-8334

  Qian, Wenyuan ^b   Bartberger, Michael D ^b   Pastor, Salvador J ^c   Houk, Kendall N ^b   Wilkins, Charles L ^a,c   Rubin, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; ISOMERISM; LETTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034734308     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja001587k     Document Type: Letter

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