Brominated diethyl malonate and DBU are used to add cyclopropane to thismolecule.
This molecule has a 5-fold-degenerate HOMO band at h sub u and a 3-fold-degenerate t sub one u LUMOband. A solution of sarcosine and paraformaldehyde in toluene is heated to create an N-methyl-pyrrolidinederivative of this molecule. Brominated diethyl malonate and DBU are used to add cyclopropane to thismolecule. Those reactions are named for (*) Prato and Bingel. This molecule is in the I sub h symmetry group,which has order 120. Solutions of it are deep purple because it has a dip in absorbance at 450 and 700 nanometres,meaning individual molecules emit either blue or red. This molecule was originally discovered by Kroto, Smalley,and Curl by using a laser on graphite. For 10 points, name this molecule which consists of 60 carbon atoms and hasa soccer-ball shape.
This molecule has a 5-fold-degenerate HOMO band at h sub u and a 3-fold-degenerate t sub one u LUMOband.
buckminsterfullerene [or buckyballs; do NOT accept "nanotubes" or "carbon nanotubes"]