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

有了这个探索性研究的补助金， 化学系的化学课程，戴维斯教授 将研究C60的解离和加成反应， 被称为巴克敏斯特富勒烯或富勒烯，加速到高 交叉超声束的相对平动能 设备. C60本身的动力学，在一个货车的范德瓦尔斯 簇，或与吸附的金属原子将被研究的 取代基产生的影响。 与不同的冲突 还将研究目标分子。 %%% 自从C60（巴克敏斯特富勒烯）分子被发现以来， 或富勒烯），化学家们想知道物理和 这个足球形状的分子的化学性质，因为， 由于它的高度对称性，预计它将是不寻常的 化学反应稳定。 最近披露的一份 一种制造大量C60的方法使得这种独特的 物种被广泛的技术研究。 这 目前的研究将有助于回答大量的问题 尤其是富勒烯的性质， 形成了理解富勒烯的基础。

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.