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  • Fullerene cages that break the isolated pentagon rule are rare and often unstable. Now a range of fullerenes that feature three sequentially fused pentagons of carbon have been stabilized by chlorination.

    • Yuan-Zhi Tan
    • Jia Li
    • Lan-Sun Zheng
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 2, P: 269-273

  • The structure of C60 is well-known: a perfectly symmetrical sphere of 12 isolated pentagons. But this is only one of 1,812 possible isomers, and the only one to obey the isolated-pentagon rule. So far it has been the only form observed. But now two isomers without isolated pentagons have been made.

    • Yuan-Zhi Tan
    • Zhao-Jiang Liao
    • Lan-Sun Zheng
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 7, P: 790-794

  • Chemical manipulation of fullerenes has allowed the production of heptagon-containing fullerenes, but they have not been synthesised using bottom-up approaches. Here, a heptagon-containing fullerene[68] is obtained as C68Cl6from a carbon arc plasma.

    • Yuan-Zhi Tan
    • Rui-Ting Chen
    • Lan-Sun Zheng
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 2, P: 1-6

  • The structures of fullerenes, or buckyballs, are often very difficult to resolve. Here, the authors describe a decapyrrylcorannulene host with ten flexible pyrryl groups that can efficiently co-crystallize with diverse fullerene derivatives in a ‘hand-ball-hand’ fashion, allowing crystallographic identification of commonly known types of fullerenes.

    • Yun-Yan Xu
    • Han-Rui Tian
    • Lan-Sun Zheng
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-9

  • The most stable fullerenes obey the isolated-pentagon rule (IPR): hexagons of carbon atoms entirely surround pentagons to minimize strain. Recently, some examples of fused-pentagon fullerenes have been reported and this Review summarizes current work to stabilize non-IPR fullerenes.

    • Yuan-Zhi Tan
    • Su-Yuan Xie
    • Lan-Sun Zheng
    Reviews
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 1, P: 450-460