Question

Write a short note on Buckminsterfullerene.

Answer 1

Buckminsterfullerene (or bucky-ball) is a spherical fullerene molecule with the formula C60. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure (truncated icosahedron) which resembles a football (soccer ball), made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom at each vertex of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge.

It was first generated in 1985 by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley at Rice University.Kroto, Curl and Smalley were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their roles in the discovery of buckminsterfullerene and the related class of molecules, the fullerenes. The name is a reference to Buckminster Fuller, as C60 resembles his trademark geodesic domes. Buckminsterfullerene is the most common naturally occurring fullerene molecule, as it can be found in small quantities in soot.Solid and gaseous forms of the molecule have been detected in deep space.

Answer 2

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buckminsterfullerences are molecules of varying sizes that are composed entirely of carbon. fullerenes are formed when vapourised carbon condenses in an atmosphere of an inert gas. it contains nearly spherical 60C molecules with the shape of a soccer ball

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