Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 60 No. 4, 1987.
Original scientific paper
On the Aromatic Stability of a Conjugated C60 Cluster
Milan Randić
; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311 and Ames Laboratory-DOE**, Ames, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
Sonja Nikolić
; The Rugjer Bošković Institute, P.O.B. 1016, 41001 Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Nenad Trinajstić
; The Rugjer Bošković Institute, P.O.B. 1016, 41001 Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Abstract
The aromatic stability of recenlIy reported conjugated sixty-carbon system of spherical shape (representing a truncated icosahedron
and named buckminsterfullerene) is discussed. Buckminsterfullerene
is predicted by a majority of theoretical methods to be aromatic compound with the degree of aromaticity smaller than that of benzene.
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176386
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Publication date:
23.12.1987.
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