Stereochemical features of the synthesis and the structure of fullerenes

Details of the design of decaplet fullerenes are discussed. A model of the cluster assembly of C₆₀, C₇₀, and C₈₀ monomers from mono-, bi-, and trihexacyclic compounds of carbon was developed on the basis of the described structural and stereochemical concepts. The autoadhesion in the supermolecular structure, the cluster macrorecombination of the π radicals, and the contribution from spin-polymerization effects to regulation of the organic synthesis of C_n fullerenes were examined. V. N. Bakul Institute of Superhard Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2 Avtozavodskaya ul., Kiev 254074, Ukraine. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 145–149, May–June, 1999.