Non-IPR fullerenes with properly closed shells
Literature Information
Patrick W. Fowler, Wendy Myrvold
Fullerenes with properly closed shells (having exactly half their adjacency eigenvalues strictly positive) are rare. All reported examples obey the isolated-pentagon rule (IPR), usually considered a necessary condition of overall stability, and fall into three series (leapfrogs, carbon cylinders and sporadic closed shells). It is shown here that there also exist fullerenes with properly closed shells that violate the IPR (‘super-sporadic’ fullerenes). All have negative LUMO eigenvalues of small magnitude. Exhaustive search finds four examples with 160 or fewer vertices: one isomer of C120, two of C156 and one of C160. The first three contain single pentagon pairs and the fourth, a linear triple of fused pentagons. Larger examples can be found. A capping construction gives a series of properly closed shell fullerenes of C3/C3v symmetry, each with a single fully fused triple of pentagons and ≥632 vertices. Tubular extension of the C120 example leads a series of C1/Cs isomer pairs with ≥168 vertices, retaining the single pentagon adjacency and approaching isospectrality with increasing size. Both constructions are conjectured to lead to an infinite number of super-sporadic fullerenes.
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