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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Hrčak ID:

176386

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/176386

Publication date:

23.12.1987.

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