The Ethical Purpose of Education

Walt Whitman

Triassic Fossils

My 4 out of 5 Rule

CH3CP

At Sussex we created many new molecules and studied them by microwave spectroscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy

Phosphorus compounds with John Nixon - Polyynes with David Walton

H2C=PH

CH3CH=S

HCCCCCN

CH3B=S FB=S

FCP

F2C=S H2C=C=S

HCC CCCCCN

(CH3)2CH=SC=S

F2C=PH H2C=PCl H2C=PF

HCP C6H5CP

The first carbon phosphorus double C=P bonded species – phosphaalkenes

General method for creating carbon phosphorus triple bonded species – phosphaalkynes – only HCP previously known (for more than a decade)

General thermolytic routes to new unstable species - thiocarbonyls

ClB=S BrB=S

General method for creating Boron –Sulphides

General method for creating cyanopolyynes

NC–CPClCP HCC–CP

H2C=CH-C=PH

HCC–CC–CP

H−C≡C−C≡C−C≡N

Walton Polyyne Synthesis

Radioastronomy

Rotating dipolar molecule → a photon that can be detected by a radio telescope

HCCCCCN

Hintenberger Franzen and

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Z Nat 1963

Mass spectrum of arc

discharged graphite

C60 VS

Half Price Books

Resonant 2-photon ionisation (R2PI) spectroscopy

Si

C C

Ap2

Graphite Target

Should produce long carbon chains

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C60

C60 VS

My 4 out of 5 Rule

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The Pentagon Isolation Rule (PIR)

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C28 s Sussex NNC

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I had a hole drilled though the base plate and filled it with Argon

Sussex NNC

Sussex NNC

We deposited soot from the carbon arc on an electron microscope slide and varied the

Argon pressure

Sussex NNC

Electron microscopy indicated that the structure of the deposited soot changed

dramatically as the pressure was raised to over 80 microns

A manuscript of a paper presented at a conference in Capri sent to me by

Mike Jura a professor of astrophysics at UCLA

Infra red spectrum of arc discharged soot!

The Red Solution

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3Then there were

Fullerene Chemistry©

The Buckyball bounces!

C60 Bouncing

©Just How Small is a Buckyball

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Fullerene Growth

…in Outer Space

The Third Man

C60

C70

Detection of C60 and C70 in a Young Planetary NebulaJ Cami, J Bernard-Salas,E Peeters and S E Malek

July 2010

Diamond

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C60

Movie- “The Third Man”

BBC Horizon TV Programme 1992

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Problem

25th March

Draw the C60 molecule and comment on why you drew it the way you did