title: Capturing the Fused-Pentagon C74 by Stepwise Chlorination.
abstract: As a bridge to connect medium-sized fullerenes, fused-pentagon C74 is still missing heretofore. Of 14 246 possible isomers, the first fused-pentagon C74 with the Fowler-Manolopoulos code of 14 049 was stabilized as C74Cl10 in the chlorine-involving carbon arc. The structure of C74Cl10 was identified by X-ray crystallography. The stabilization of pristine fused-pentagon C74 by stepwise chlorination was clarified in both theoretical simulation with density functional theory calculations and experimental fragmentation with multistage mass spectrometry.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Cong-Li
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.|Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili , c/Marcel·lí Domingo 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Abella
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Yuan-Zhi
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Xin-Zhou
authors.initials: XZ
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili , c/Marcel·lí Domingo 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Fortea
authors.affiliation: Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili , c/Marcel·lí Domingo 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
authors.forename: Josep M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Poblet
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Su-Yuan
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Rong-Bin
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Lan-Sun
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Zheng