The electronic structure calculations locate the local minima for bicyclic N10 and the fullerene analog N60, both as high-energy density species. The bridging N-N bond in N10 is quite remarkably strong yet flexible to allow a facile rotation of one ring with respect to the other. This property could permit N10 to serve as a building block for specific clustering into the nitrogen buckminsterfullerene structure.
Revised: January 23, 2012 |
Published: December 1, 2000
Citation
Manaa M.R. 2000.Toward New Energy-rich Molecular Systems: From N10 to N60.Chemical Physics Letters 331, no. 2-4:262-268.