Journal article

Authors list: Scott, LT; Boorum, MM; McMahon, BJ; Hagen, S; Mack, J; Blank, J; Wegner, H; de Meijere, A

Publication year: 2002

Pages: 1500-1503

Journal: Science

Volume number: 295

Issue number: 5559

ISSN: 0036-8075

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1068427

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract: 
Notable quantities of C-60, the smallest stable fullerene, have been synthesized in 12 steps from commercially available starting materials by rational chemical methods. A molecular polycyclic aromatic precursor bearing chlorine substituents at key positions forms C-60 when subjected to flash vacuum pyrolysis at 1100degreesC. No other fullerenes are formed as by-products. The methods we have developed for the target-specific synthesis of fullerenes, applied here to a synthesis of C-60, should make possible the directed laboratory preparation of other fullerenes as well, including those not accessible by graphite vaporization.

Harvard Citation style: Scott, L., Boorum, M., McMahon, B., Hagen, S., Mack, J., Blank, J., et al. (2002) A rational chemical synthesis of C-60, Science, 295(5559), pp. 1500-1503. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1068427

APA Citation style: Scott, L., Boorum, M., McMahon, B., Hagen, S., Mack, J., Blank, J., Wegner, H., & de Meijere, A. (2002). A rational chemical synthesis of C-60. Science. 295(5559), 1500-1503. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1068427