The Mechanism of Formation and the Chemical Reactivity of C60

有机动力学计划的这笔拨款支持了这项研究 舍夫林教授在探索性研究的小额赠款下 研究（SGER）计划。这项研究的结果将使 本文对近年来新发现的“黑云母”的形成机理有了新的认识， 发现了碳的C60同素异形体，具有测地线 （巴克·富勒）结构。此外，C60的反应将 被研究。人们对它的形成，反应， 碳的这种同素异形体（石墨和金刚石）的性质 是碳的其它同素异形体的实例）。 据认为，原子碳形成小的反应性碎片， 然后进行进一步的反应，最终生成C60。 这一假设将在设计用于捕获 C60的较小碎片前体。可提取的氢将是 添加到氦浴气体中作为捕获试剂， 被捕获的碳团簇的大小 将与浴气体压力成正比， 与捕获试剂的量成比例。此外该 某些活性中间体（卡宾和苯炔）的反应 C60将被研究。六羰基铬与 C60也将被探索。

This grant from the Organic Dynamics Program supports the research of Professor Shevlin under the Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) Program. The results of this research will give new understanding to the mechanism of formation of the recently discovered C60 allotrope of carbon, which possesses a geodesic (Buckminster Fuller) structure. In addition, reaction of C60 will be studied. There is intense interest in the formation, reactions, and properties of this allotrope of carbon (graphite and diamond are examples of other allotropes of carbon). It is thought that atomic carbon forms small reactive fragments, which then undergo further reactions to eventually produce C60. This hypothesis will be tested in experiments designed to trap the smaller fragment precursors to C60. Abstractable hydrogen will be added to the helium bath gas as the trapping reagent, with the expectation that the size of carbon clusters which are trapped will be directly proportional to bath gas pressure and inversely proportional to the amount of trapping reagent. In addition, the reactions of some reactive intermediates (carbenes and benzyne) with C60 will be studied. Reaction of chromium hexacarbonyl with C60 will also be explored.