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Carbon Solvates: Redox Properties and Single Crystal X-Ray Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

S. M. Gorun
Affiliation:
Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Annandale, N.J. 08801
M. A. Greaney
Affiliation:
Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Annandale, N.J. 08801
D. M. Cox
Affiliation:
Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Annandale, N.J. 08801
R. Sherwood
Affiliation:
Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Annandale, N.J. 08801
C. Day
Affiliation:
Crystalytics Company, P. O. Box 82286, Lincoln, Nebraska 86501
V. Day
Affiliation:
Crystalytics Company, P. O. Box 82286, Lincoln, Nebraska 86501
R. Upton
Affiliation:
Chemical Design, Ltd., 7 West Way, Oxford 0X2 OJB, UK
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Abstract

Carbon aggregates of various nuclearities have been recently the subject of renewed interest [1]. Despite an intense research, effort no molecular level characterization of C60 and related molecules has been reported yet [1,2]. Moreover, the chemical properties of these materials is virtually unknown. In this paper we report briefly the preparation, electrochemical and structural characterization of crystalline C60/70 solvates [3].

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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