Kratschmer. Wolfgang

Kolbe, Hermann, 952 Kolbe-Schmitt reaction, 952-953, 963 Kossel, Walter, 12 Kratschmer, Wolfgang, 410 Krebs cycle, 1064 Kroto, Harold W, 410... 

Confirming its structure required isolating enough Cgo to apply modern techniques of structure determination. A quantum leap in fullerene research came in 1990 when a team led by Wolfgang Kratschmer of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and Donald Huffman of the University of Arizona successfully prepared buckmin-sterfullerene in amounts sufficient for its isolation, purification, and detailed study. Not only was the buckminsterfullerene structure shown to be correct. 

For helping me to learn about the interaction of light with small particles I sincerely thank the other students and co-workers who have been my colleagues over the years James L. Stapp, Terry Steyer, Roger Perry, Janice Rathmann, Otto Edoh, Lin Oliver, Wolfgang Kratschmer, and Kenrick Day. Special thanks are due to Arlon Hunt for the work we shared in the days when everything about small particles was new to us, exciting, and occasionally explosive. 

Incidentally, the stormy interest in buckminsterfullerene started subsiding a few years after the initial discovery because the original discoverers only observed but failed to produce the substance, so no chemistry could have been performed on it. Wolfgang Kratschmer and Donald Huffman (Figure 1-10) and their students changed this situation in 1990 when they obtained quantities of C60 from graphite in a discharge experiment [25], Their work made the new substance commonly available. The buckminsterfullerene story had an appeal for a broad readership even beyond chemists [26],... 

Figure 1-10. Wolfgang Kratschmer and Donald Huffman re-enacting their first production of buckminsterfulleiene, in 1999 in Tucson, Arizona (photograph by the authors) [27],...

B. Hargittai, I. Hargittai, Rising to New Heights. Chem. Intell. 2000, 6(3), 42-43. This article is a pictorial report about the experiment at the Department of Physics at the University of Arizona on August 30, 1999, in which Donald Huffman and Wolfgang Kratschmer re-enacted the first ever production of buckminsterfullerene. 

K. Fostiropoulos, Donald R. Huffman, Wolfgang Kratschmer, Yves Rubin, Kenneth E. Schriver, Dilip Sensharma, and Robert L. Whetten - ... 

There remained considerable debate over whether the circumstantial evidence really supported the amazing icosahedral structure for C o until 1990, when milligram and higher quantities of C o were isolated and subjected to spectroscopic study. Wolfgang Kratschmer (1937- ) and Donald R. Huffman (1935- ), astrophysicists at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and the University of Arizona, had collaborated... 

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