Exploring Carbon鈥檚 Allotropy: A Pupil-Led Synthesis of Fullerenes from Graphite

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• 作者：Simon D. A. Davis ; Simon D. Holland ; Matthew S. A. Kingswell ; Patrick M. Lavery ; Martin J. Smith ; Christopher M. Thomas ; James E. A. Tizzard ; George T. West ; Ashley D. Z. Zee ; Alaa K. Abdul-Sada ; Jonathan P. Hare
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：July 14, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：92
• 期：7
• 页码：1263-1265
• 全文大小：211K
• ISSN：1938-1328

文摘

A successful pupil-led effort to build a fullerene generator and to use it to synthesize C₆₀ and C₇₀ is reported, demonstrating that such an activity is feasible in schools. Suggestions are made as to how fullerene synthesis and purification could be used in conventional high school chemistry lessons, particularly in the context of teaching the concept of allotropy, but also to illustrate some of the contrasting properties of simple versus giant covalent structures.