Voorbeelden van buckminsterfullerene

• His work on the structure of sulfur in solution and on buckminsterfullerene are highly cited.

• Buckminsterfullerene does not exhibit superaromaticity: that is, the electrons in the hexagonal rings do not delocalize over the whole molecule.

• It is similar to buckminsterfullerene, the spherical carbon structure, but with a different symmetry.

• It is of scientific interest because it is a geodesic polyarene and can be considered a fragment of buckminsterfullerene.

• Buckminsterfullerene was the first to be discovered of the class of molecules known as fullerenes, which also includes carbon nanotubes.

• Buckminsterfullerene is the most common naturally occurring fullerene molecule, as it can be found in small quantities in soot.

• Buckminsterfullerene has been demonstrated as having the ability of inducing the protection of reactive oxygen species and causing lipid peroxidation.

• The fullerenes, a class of molecules of which buckminsterfullerene was the first member discovered, are now considered to have potential applications in nanomaterials and molecular scale electronics.