{"title":"Is aromaticity a useful concept for C60 and its derivatives? Aromatisation of C60 by regioselective addition","authors":"P. Fowler, D. J. Collins, S. Austin","doi":"10.1039/P29930000275","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative symmetry arguments, evidence from bondlengths and energies, and from the addition chemistry of C60 point to a localised description of the π system of this molecule. Regioselective saturation of six double bonds in C60 is predicted to lead to an alternant delocalised (aromatic)π system that is realised in at least one well characterised compound.","PeriodicalId":17267,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Chemical Society-perkin Transactions 1","volume":"63 1","pages":"275-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"21","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of The Chemical Society-perkin Transactions 1","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1039/P29930000275","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Qualitative symmetry arguments, evidence from bondlengths and energies, and from the addition chemistry of C60 point to a localised description of the π system of this molecule. Regioselective saturation of six double bonds in C60 is predicted to lead to an alternant delocalised (aromatic)π system that is realised in at least one well characterised compound.