== RESEARCH == Fullerenes was rewarded with the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Robert F. Curl Jr., SirHarold W. kroto and Richard E. Smalley (see the web page here). Figure 1 http://www-klinowski.ch.cam.ac.uk/fullerenes.htm
Extractions: For many hundreds of years, diamond and graphite (Figure 1) were the only known crystalline allotropic forms of carbon. The discovery in the 1980s of fullerenes, a family of crystalline C n compounds (with n even), was rewarded with the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley (see the web page here Figure 1 The most prominent of these are fullerenes C60 (Figure 2) and C70. Following the first preparation of fullerenes in macroscopic amounts and the development of high-yield preparative procedures, fullerenes have been subjected to intensive scrutiny. Their unique structure and properties suggest potential applications in materials science (for the production of superconductors, superhard phases and synthetic diamond), synthetic chemistry and medicine (targeted cancer therapy). Figure 2 A C MAS NMR spectrum of carbon soot produced in the course of fullerene synthesis shows that both C60 and C70 fullerenes are clearly present. 1H MAS NMR detects dilute H-containing species in purified C60. We have identified various fulleroids containing HC=CHCH2CH3, HC=CHCH3 and HC=CH groups, as well as toluene and dioctylphtalate (DOP) impurities. The H-containing species are so dilute that they cannot communicate by intermolecular spin diffusion. The intramolecular spin-diffusion paths suggest that the alkyl chains of DOP are folded back towards the aromatic ring.
IN-VSEE Archives INVSEE Project in Nanoscience and Technology, W. Glaunsinger, sir HaroldKroto Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1996 (University of Sussex, http://invsee.asu.edu/Invsee/present.html
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