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C60 Research at the University of California at Berkeley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

J. R. Heath
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
J. M. Hawkins
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
P. A. Alivisatos
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
R. J. Saykally
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
T. A. Lewis
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
S. D. Loren
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
A. Meyer
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
Y. Shibato
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
S. Tolbert
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
J. Shang
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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Abstract

An extremely simple and inexpensive apparatus for preparation of the C60 and C70 fullerenes is described. An efficient separatory technique is described which implements a phenylglycine based HFLC column for preparation of high purity (99.99%) C60 and C70 samples. Treatment of C60 with osmium tetroxide and pyridine gives the osmate ester (2:1 adduct) and establishes that oxygen functionality can be added to C60 without disrupting the carbon framework. Raman spectroscopy of high purity C60 indicates that several lines previously not assigned to C60 (D.S.Bethune, G.Meijer, W.C.Tang, and H.J.Rosen, Chem.Phys.Lett.174, 219(1990)) are attributable to C60.

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Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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