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Measurements of Long-range Electronic Correlations During Femtosecond Diffraction Experiments Performed on Nanocrystals of Buckminsterfullerene
Published on: August 22, 2017
Communication: fullerene resolution by the magnetic circular dichroism
Petr Štěpánek1, Michal Straka, Valery Andrushchenko
1Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
The similarity in shape makes separation and identification of fullerenes difficult. In this work, the magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy is presented as a useful tool for this purpose. Experimental C60 and C70 spectra were obtained and reproduced with the aid of density functional computations and the complex polarization propagator method. Theoretical spectra of other fullerenes revealed distinctive patterns extremely sensitive to molecular structure as well. Requiring tiny amounts of the sample, the MCD technique thus appears as a useful for detailed fullerene studies.
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