What is Carbon 60? What does it do? What can it do? What are its physical properties? What about chemical properties?

Carbon 60 is a molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms, shaped like a soccer ball, also known as soccer ball alkene.

Use: It has special chemical activity and can carry out addition reactions to produce various derivatives.

C?Physical Properties:

A purplish-red solid molecular crystal at room temperature, with weak fluorescence. The diameter of the molecule is about 7.1 angstroms (1 angstrom = 10 meters, i.e., 10 billionths of a meter), and the density is 1.68 g/cm3. Molecular orbital calculations show that the soccer alkene has a large energy of separation. It has a metallic luster and many excellent properties, such as superconductivity, strong magnetism, high pressure resistance and chemical resistance.

C?Chemical Properties:

Conducts a series of chemical reactions such as pericyclic reaction, hydrogenation reduction, hydroxyl reaction, opening reaction, redox, addition reaction, metal reaction, color reaction, and so on.

C60 is a stable molecule formed solely by the bonding of carbon atoms, and it has 60 vertices and 32 faces, 12 of which are ortho-pentagonal and 20 of which are ortho-hexagonal.

Expanded Information:

. p>Research and development history:

In 1971, Eiji Osawa published the book "Aromaticity", which describes the conception of the C? molecule.

In 1980, Sumio Iijima discovered concentric structures, like cut onions, while analyzing transmission electron micrographs of carbon membranes, the first electron micrograph of C?

In 1980, Sumio Iijima discovered concentric structures, like cut onions, while analyzing transmission electron micrographs of carbon membranes, the first electron micrograph of C?

C? In 1983, Croteau found absorption peaks at 215 nm and 265 nm in the ultraviolet-visible spectrum of carbon ash produced by evaporating graphite rods, which they called "humps," and which they deduced were produced by fullerenes.

The first spectroscopic evidence of fullerenes was found in 1984 by Ruffin et al. at the Exxon Laboratory in New Jersey, USA, but they did not believe that they were produced by clusters such as C?

In 1985, British chemist Dr. Harold Whittle Croteau and U.S. scientist Richard Smalley and others produced the first structured molecule C?, a cluster of carbon atoms made up of 60 carbons, in experiments of laser vaporization of evaporated graphite in a helium stream, and speculated that the cluster was spherical.

It was in 1990 that Kriischmer and others first reported the synthesis of C? in large quantities, which led to a significant amount of C? research.

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