G. Mehta et G. Panda, BUCKYBOWLS - A SIMPLE, CONCEPTUALLY NEW SYNTHESIS OF C-2-NU-SEMIBUCKMINSTERFULLERENE (C30H12, [5,5]-FULVALENE CIRCULENE), Chemical communications, (21), 1997, pp. 2081-2082
An extremely simple synthesis of decacyclic, C30H12 'buckybowl' 2 from
m-xylene, employing a strategy of wider applicability for the synthes
is of diverse curved aromatic surfaces, is described.