Structure of Smaller Carbon Clusters

While in theory fullerene-like structures can be made up for any even number of carbon atoms (except for 22), the classical methods of fullerene production do 

From about 50 carbon atoms on, fullerene-Hke structures become dominant in the analysis of carbon plasma. These cannot be isolated, but at least there are publications on highly substituted C5o+ ompounds that will be presented in Section 2.5.8. 

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