T. Wakabayashi et al., RING-STACKING CONSIDERATION ON HIGHER FULLERENE GROWTH, Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters, 26, 1993, pp. 258-260
A hypothetical ring-stacking procedure combined with the isolated-pent
agon rule(IPR) shows variety of formation pathways of many fullerene s
tructures with a 5- and 6-membered ring carbon cage. Combining the rin
g-stacking procedure with energetic considerations, the numbers of pos
sible reaction channels are dramatically reduced within the framework
of the ring-stacking considerations. This, in turn, gives the results
that only some specific isomers of large fullerenes are selectively pr
oduced. The resulting fullerene structures specified are surprisingly
well consistent with the recent experimental results.