1. INTRODUCTION Beams of atoms and molecules are stalwart tools for spectroscopy and
studies of collisional processes. 1− 4 The supersonic expansion technique can create cold …

It is a thrill for me to be here today and to be the first of three speakers discussing the
wonders of the fullerenes, an infinite new class of carbon molecules. My colleagues in this …

During experiments aimed at understanding the mechanisms by which long-chain carbon
molecules are formed in interstellar space and circumstellar shells1, graphite has been …

It has been proposed1 that the geodesic and chemical properties inherent in a closed,
hollow, spheroidal, carbon cage structure with the symmetry of a European football can …

In the past 10 years or so, a new type of chemical entity has come under both experimental
and theo-retical examination: clusters of transition-metal atoms, without benefit of stabilizing …

Laser vaporization of a substrate within the throat of a pulsed nozzle is used to generate a
supersonic beam of carbon clusters. The neutral cluster beam is probed downstream by UV …

Although carbon has been subjected to far more study than all other elements put together,
the buckminsterfullerene hollow-cage structure, recently proposed to account for the …

A series of efficient split‐valence basis sets for second‐row transitions metals, termed 3‐
21G, has been constructed based on previously formulated minimal expansions of …

We report the first measurement of the magnetic properties of isolated iron-atom clusters
ranging in size from 2 to 17 atoms as well as the magnetic behavior of the monoxides and …

Reactions on the surface of a variety of transition metal clusters have been studied in the
gas phase at near room temperature using a newly developed fast‐flow reaction device …