TCI - Model P1308 - (S)-(+)-4-Phenyl-2-Oxazolidinone - Brochure

Fullerene is a spherical carbon compound and is an allotrope of carbon such as diamond, graphite and carbon nanotubes. Fullerenes of C₆₀, C₇₀ and C₈₄ are well known. They are isolable carbon compounds in a sole molecular species. Among them, the C₆₀ is a representative species. Kroto, Smalley and Curl et al. first observed the C60 in which the 60 carbon atoms consist of 12 five-membered rings and 20 six-membered rings.¹⁾ Kroto, Smalley and Curl won their joint Nobel prizes in chemistry in 1996 for their contributions. Osawa predicted existence of fullerene in 1970, earlier than the first observation of fullerene.²⁾