The Chemistry of the Fullerenes

In the electronic age, the role of books is shifting more and more from the transfer of data to the transfer of knowledge - the "Thieme Organic Chemistry Monograph" series meets the needs of the scientific community for comprehensive, conceptual treatments of new developments, put into the broad content of organic chemisrtry as a whole and written for the non-specialist. Each book presents a topic where significant progress has reached a state of maturity such that a critical overview is needed. This volume discusses the methods of preparation and isolation of fullerene chemistry in detail. After comprehensive presentation of the physical and spectroscopic properties of fullerenes, nano tubes and bucky onions are briefly discussed. Fullerene chemistry itself is outlined according to the topological types of derivatives.