Stone-Wales Rearrangements Involving Heptagonal Defects
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- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Fullerene Science and Technology
- Vol. 4 (5) , 939-961
Abstract
Three cases of Stone-Wales type rearrangements involving heptagonal rings have been studied by using AM1 semiempirial MO method. In all cases, transition states of the two distinct mechanisms known to pyracylene rearrangements, stepwise and concerted, have been found. Activation energies are estimated to be 110 to 150 kcal/mol.Keywords
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