Fullerene road

Manolopoulos and Fowler [256] have presented a model to examine the fullerene road mechanism. They used a building game approach [257] based on energetics and the number of adjacent pentagons at each nuclearity. They found that the fullerene road can explain the experimental abundance of Cgo and C70 if the structural driving force is based only on energy minimization. 

H. O. Pierson, Handbook of Carbon, Graphite, Diamond and Fullerenes, Noyes Publications, Mill Road, Park Ridge, NJ, 1993, p. 43. 

Carbon-based sorbents are relatively new materials for the analysis of noble metal samples of different origin [78-84]. The separation and enrichment of palladium from water, fly ash, and road dust samples on oxidized carbon nanotubes (preconcentration factor of 165) [83] palladium from road dust samples on dithiocarbamate-coated fullerene Cso (sorption efficiency of 99.2 %) [78], and rhodium on multiwalled carbon nanotubes modified with polyacrylonitrile (preconcentration factor of 120) [80] are examples of the application of various carbon-based sorbents for extraction of noble metals from environmental samples. Sorption of Au(III) and Pd(ll) on hybrid material of multiwalled carbon nanotubes grafted with polypropylene amine dendrimers prior to their determination in food and environmental samples has recently been described [84]. Recent application of ion-imprinted polymers using various chelate complexes for SPE of noble metals such as Pt [85] and Pd [86] from environmental samples can be mentioned. Hydrophobic noble metal complexes undergo separation by extraction under cloud point extraction systems, for example, extraction of Pt, Pd, and Au with N, A-dihexyl-A -benzylthiourea-Triton X-114 from sea water and dust samples [87]. 

Irle, S., Zheng, G. S., Wang, Z., Morokuma, K. (2006). The Cgo formation puzzle solved QM/MD simulations reveal the shrinking hot giant road of the dynamic fullerene self-assembly mechanism. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110(30), 14531-14545. 

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