Chlorination-promoted Transformation of Isolated Pentagon Rule C78 into Fused-pentagons- and Heptagons-containing Fullerenesстатья
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Аннотация:Cage transformations in fullerenes are rare phenomena which are still not fully understood. We report the first skeletal transformation of an Isolated-Pentagon-Rule (IPR) isomer of C78 fullerene upon high-temperature chlorination which proceeds by six-step Stone–Wales rearrangements affording non-IPR, non-classical (NC) C78(NC2)Cl24 with two cage heptagons, six pairs of fused pentagons, and an unprecedented loop-like chlorination pattern. The following loss of a C2 unit results in C76(NC3)Cl24 containing three cage heptagons.