Spherical Molecules: Fullerene
At the moment fullerene (C 60) is considered as a globular molecule, which is formed by hexa molecules similar to benzene .
The main reason is that fullerene gives us a single signal of Nmr-spectrun (very debatable question as we will see), and however few clear and unquestionable reasons are ignored, which tell us that its structure cannot be spherical-globular but spherical-compact, as my theory expose.. The main reason to underrate the globular structure is simple and clear: Its density.
As we see in the chapter of molecular porosity, the density of any material is directly proportional to the atomic weight of their atoms and inversely proportional to the porosity of molecules and material.
Therefore if we divide the atomic weight of the element that composes the material for the porosity of the same one, we will have its density.
What happens with fullerene?. Because to be composed for carbon its relative atomic weight would be 13/16 = 0,8, and its porosity according to their own discoverers (structure) and specialists are very high.
Therefore, its density in the event of being globular would be inferior to 0,3 g-cm3. But its real density is five times bigger (1,65), for what fullerene would have of being a compact carbonic compound.
In the same way, a globular fullerene in a void bubble should consist and so it has to got many holes and empty spaces, and so that, it cannot has bigger density than nitrogen, oxygen or liquid air.
So, fullerene cannot be globular; it must be compact, it is which is its structural form.
Its globular form would also have all the connection positions occupied by its neighbouring atoms and so, fullerene could not react with other elements. We know that it is not this way.
On the other hand, the Nmr-spectrum signal what tells us is that all the carbons have the same potential of resonance, but if these carbons form spherical structures and they also have the same connections they also should of giving us a single signal in the spectrum.
That is to say, the Nmr signal can be debatable and very probably in both cases fullerene would give us a single signal. On the other hand, the tests against its globular form are unquestionable.
Other reasons against the globular form and that a the same time support my structural form are the followings:
--Fullerene accept only six halogen (if fullerene were globular it has to accept till ten)
--The same occur with alkalines (only accept tree and more difficulty four)
In my structural form, fullerene has six groups with surplus electrons and four groups with lack of electrons, one of them with difficult access.
In the drawing I show the most probable structure that I believe fullerene should have, but in any way, it is sure for me that fullerene is compact and not globular.
>>> In the drawing we can see two possible forms of fullerene.
In the followings pages we see the fullerenes and graphite bonds, also Porosity Coefficient.
