Non-bonding orbitals in graphite, carbon tubules, toroids and fullerenes

Abstract

It is shown that the non-bonding orbitals of many graphite-derived carbon frameworks can be understood in terms of the four non-bonding orbitals of the graphite sheet. Several infinite series of fullerenes with non-bonding orbitals are identified, and the frontier orbitals of icosahedral fullerenes rationalised, by considering fullerenes as cut and folded graphite. The leapfrog construction, which produces only closed-shells when acting on fullerenes, is shown in contrast to produce exactly the metallic tubules and the open-shell polyhex toroids when acting within these families.

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