Chirality and symmetry aspects of spheroarenes, including fullerenes.
The design of the smallest spheroarenes (C(N) molecules based on trivalent polyhedral framework, a class which subsumes fullerenes) of any point-group symmetry is presented. The role of Curie's principle is discussed. Some molecules whose carbon backbone is a nonplanar graph are described.
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