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DOI: 10.1039/A806726K (Paper) Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1998, 2497-2498

C60 degrades to C120O

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Roger Taylor, Mark P. Barrow and Thomas Drewello

Abstract

At ambient temperature and in the solid state C60 degrades to C120O which is present in up to ca. 1% concentration in each of thirteen differently sourced samples examined; traces of C120O2 have also been detected.

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