There are 1812 isomers of C
60. Only the one with the shape of a soccer ball is stable enough and can be synthesized routinely. However, chemists in the Xiamen university have successfully created a few chlorinated isomers of C
60 three years ago. I will try to make bead models of them when I find time. Here I would like to show the bead model of another elusive isomer of C
60 with pillar shape (point group, D
6h) which might be found someday.
Of course, there is a whole series of pillar-shape fullerenes by simply inserting short rings of carbon nanotubes. Here is the bead model of C72, which is the second one in this series.
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