title: Synthesis of a C(56)H(40) hydrocarbon bearing a 54-carbon framework of C(60).
abstract: A C(56)H(40) hydrocarbon possessing a 54-carbon framework represented on the surface of C(60) was synthesized by solution-phase chemistry. The structure of this hydrocarbon has a 30-carbon core, which can be regarded as a partially hydrogenated [5,5]circulene, a C(30)H(12) semibuckminsterfullerene, with only one of the carbon-carbon bonds remaining unconnected. The central 30-carbon core is fused with two indeno groups and bears two phenyl and two methyl substituents.
authors.affiliation: C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6045, USA. kung.wang@mail.wvu.edu
authors.forename: Kung K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yu-Hsuan
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Novruz G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Akhmedov
authors.forename: Jeffrey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Petersen