3. The Ethical Purpose of Education

4. Walt Whitman

5. Triassic Fossils

6. My 4 out of 5 Rule

7. CH 3  C  P At Sussex we created many new molecules and studied them by microwave spectroscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy Phosphorus compounds with John Nixon - Polyynes with David Walton H 2 C=PH CH 3 CH=S HCCCCCNHCCCCCN CH 3  B=SF  B=S FCPFCP F 2 C=SH 2 C=C=S H  C  C  C  C  C  C  C  N (CH 3 ) 2 CH=SC=S F 2 C=PHH 2 C=PClH 2 C=PF HCPHCPC6H5CPC6H5CP The first carbon phosphorus double C=P bonded species – phosphaalkenes General method for creating carbon phosphorus triple bonded species – phosphaalkynes – only HCP previously known (for more than a decade) General thermolytic routes to new unstable species - thiocarbonyls Cl  B=SBr  B=S General method for creating Boron –Sulphides General method for creating cyanopolyynes N  C–C  P Cl  C  PHC  C–C  P H 2 C=CH-C=PH HC  C–C  C–C  P

8. H−C≡C−C≡C−C≡NH−C≡C−C≡C−C≡N Walton Polyyne Synthesis

9. Radioastronomy

10. Rotating dipolar molecule → a photon that can be detected by a radio telescope HCCCCCNHCCCCCN

11. Hintenberger Franzen and Schuy Z Nat 1963 Mass spectrum of arc discharged graphite

12. C 60 VS

14. Half Price Books

15. Resonant 2-photon ionisation (R2PI) spectroscopy Si C

16. Ap2

17. Graphite Target Should produce long carbon chains oooooo ooooooo oooooo ooooooo

18. The Idea ?

19. C 60

20. C 60 VS

22. My 4 out of 5 Rule

23. © The Pentagon Isolation Rule (PIR)

24. Ferrocene image at: www.cscs.ch/.../representations/index.html www.cscs.ch/.../representations/index.html Fe

25. image at: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Endohedral_fu... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Endohedral_fu...

26. C 28 s Sussex NNC

27. © If C 60 is a closed cage…

28. I had a hole drilled though the base plate and filled it with Argon Sussex NNC

29. We deposited soot from the carbon arc on an electron microscope slide and varied the Argon pressure

30. Sussex NNC Electron microscopy indicated that the structure of the deposited soot changed dramatically as the pressure was raised to over 80 microns

31. A manuscript of a paper presented at a conference in Capri sent to me by Mike Jura a professor of astrophysics at UCLA

33. Infra red spectrum of arc discharged soot!

34. The Red Solution

35. © 3 Then there were

36. Fullerene Chemistry ©

37. The Buckyball bounces!

38. C 60 Bouncing

39. © Just How Small is a Buckyball.

41. Fullerene Growth

42. …in Outer Space The Third Man

43. C 60 C 70 Detection of C 60 and C 70 in a Young Planetary Nebula J Cami, J Bernard-Salas,E Peeters and S E Malek July 2010

44. Diamond Graphite and… C 60

45. Movie- “The Third Man”

46. BBC Horizon TV Programme 1992

47. ©

49. Problem 25 th March Draw the C 60 molecule and comment on why you drew it the way you did