Grant for Exploratory Research: High Translational Energy Collisions between Beams of C60 and Stable Molecules

利用化学学部物理化学项目的探索性研究经费，戴维斯教授将研究C60的解离和加成反应，称为巴克敏斯特富勒烯或富勒烯，在交叉超音速光束装置中加速到高相对平动能量。C60本身的动力学，在范德华团簇中，或与吸附的金属原子将被研究取代基产生的影响。与不同目标分子的碰撞也将被研究。自从发现分子C60（巴克敏斯特富勒烯或富勒烯）以来，化学家们一直想知道这种足球形状的分子的物理和化学性质，因为它的高度对称性，人们期望它在化学反应中异常稳定。最近公开的一种制造大量C60的方法允许通过各种各样的技术来研究这种独特的物种。目前的这项研究将有助于回答关于富勒烯性质的大量问题，并将有助于为理解富勒烯奠定基础。

With this Grant for Exploratory Research from the Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Professor Davis will study the dissociation and addition reactions of C60, called buckminsterfullerene or fullerite, accelerated to high relative translational energies in a crossed supersonic beam apparatus. The dynamics of C60 by itself, in a Van der Waals cluster, or with adsorbed metal atoms will be studied for the effects that substituents produce. Collisions with different target molecules will also be investigated. %%% Since the discovery of the molecule C60 (buckminsterfullerene or fullerite), chemists have wondered about the physical and chemical properties of this soccer ball-shaped molecule, since, because of its high symmetry, it is expected to be unusually stable with respect to chemical reaction. A recently disclosed method for making large quantities of C60 allows this unique species to be studied by a wide variety of techniques. This current study will help to answer a large number of questions about the properties of fullerite in particular and will help form a basis for understanding fullerenes in general.