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Title: Gas-phase synthesis of corannulene – a molecular building block of fullerenes

Abstract

Corannulene can be formed through molecular mass growth processes in circumstellar envelopes.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Florida International Univ., Miami, FL (United States)
  4. Samara National Research Univ. (Russia); Lebedev Physical Inst., Samara (Russia)
  5. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  6. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Florida International Univ. (FIU), Miami, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Russian Federation
OSTI Identifier:
1776525
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1766094; OSTI ID: 1814916; OSTI ID: 1843939
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-03ER15411; FG02-04ER15570; AC02-05CH11231; 14.Y26.31.0020
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Zhao, Long, Doddipatla, Srinivas, Kaiser, Ralf I., Lu, Wenchao, Kostko, Oleg, Ahmed, Musahid, Tuli, Lotefa Binta, Morozov, Alexander N., Howlader, A. Hasan, Wnuk, Stanislaw F., Mebel, Alexander M., Azyazov, Valeriy N., Mohamed, Rana K., and Fischer, Felix R. Gas-phase synthesis of corannulene – a molecular building block of fullerenes. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1039/d0cp06537d.
Zhao, Long, Doddipatla, Srinivas, Kaiser, Ralf I., Lu, Wenchao, Kostko, Oleg, Ahmed, Musahid, Tuli, Lotefa Binta, Morozov, Alexander N., Howlader, A. Hasan, Wnuk, Stanislaw F., Mebel, Alexander M., Azyazov, Valeriy N., Mohamed, Rana K., & Fischer, Felix R. Gas-phase synthesis of corannulene – a molecular building block of fullerenes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cp06537d
Zhao, Long, Doddipatla, Srinivas, Kaiser, Ralf I., Lu, Wenchao, Kostko, Oleg, Ahmed, Musahid, Tuli, Lotefa Binta, Morozov, Alexander N., Howlader, A. Hasan, Wnuk, Stanislaw F., Mebel, Alexander M., Azyazov, Valeriy N., Mohamed, Rana K., and Fischer, Felix R. Mon . "Gas-phase synthesis of corannulene – a molecular building block of fullerenes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cp06537d. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1776525.
@article{osti_1776525,
title = {Gas-phase synthesis of corannulene – a molecular building block of fullerenes},
author = {Zhao, Long and Doddipatla, Srinivas and Kaiser, Ralf I. and Lu, Wenchao and Kostko, Oleg and Ahmed, Musahid and Tuli, Lotefa Binta and Morozov, Alexander N. and Howlader, A. Hasan and Wnuk, Stanislaw F. and Mebel, Alexander M. and Azyazov, Valeriy N. and Mohamed, Rana K. and Fischer, Felix R.},
abstractNote = {Corannulene can be formed through molecular mass growth processes in circumstellar envelopes.},
doi = {10.1039/d0cp06537d},
journal = {Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP},
number = 10,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}

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