A pictorial visualization of normal mode vibrations of the fullerene (C60) molecule in terms of vibrations of a hollow sphere

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 819-822

  Dunn, Janette L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemoinformatics; Computer Based Learning; Graduate education research; Group theory symmetry; Theoretical chemistry; Upper division undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955892965     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100263f     Document Type: Article

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