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Apr 1993
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Philosophical Transactions: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Volume 343, Issue 1667, pp. 103-111
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The synthesis and microwave study of linear cyanopolyynes, HC5N and HC7N, in the mid-1970s was followed by the unanticipated detection of these, and longer chains (HC9N and HC11N), in space. To gain insight into the way in which such species and carbon clusters in general might form, an experiment was devised in 1985 to simulate conditions in carbon stars, involving the laser vaporization of graphite in a supersonic nozzle and detection of the resulting carbon species by mass spectrometry. This initiative resulted in the serendipitious discovery of an entirely new allotrope of carbon, C60, named buckminsterfullerene after the inventor of the geodesic dome. Five to seven years later, C60 and other members of what is now know as the fullerene family have been isolated in macroscopic amounts, however, these exciting developments have tended to overshadow fundamental problems associated with the aggregation of carbon atoms in which acetylenes, and polyynes in particular, may play a key role.
Kroto Harold W.
Walton David R. M.
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