Hetero-carbon: Heteroatomic molecules and nano-structures of carbon

Abstract

The hetero-carbon as hetero-fullerenes, hetero-graphene and hetero-nanotubes are considered as unique nanosensors which properties essentially differ from properties of undoped molecules and nanostructures of carbon. Products of a new method of pyrolysis (NMP) of pyridine by mass - spectrometric method are investigated. Fullerene ¡60 and its hydrides (¡606), small carbon molecules C 3-C11, quasi-fullerene ¡48 and new heteroatomic fullerene-like molecules such as functionalized polyazafullerenes (C35N5)H9, (¡45N 5)(OH)3H14 and (¡49N 11)(OH)518 with the large contents of nitrogen are basic substances formed at NMP of pyridine. The formation of undoped molecules ¡60, ¡606 and ¡48 could be carried out only from fragments ¡22, ¡33, ¡44 and ¡55 of destruction of ¡5N5 molecules. The growth of heteroatomic molecules is carried out with participation of pyridine molecules or the product of their dehydrogenation (C5N). © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.