{"title":"In the shadow’s shadow: Ivan V. Stankevich and C60","authors":"Istvan Hargittai","doi":"10.1007/s11224-025-02476-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A 1973 paper described a stable C<sub>60</sub> molecule of truncated icosahedral shape from Elena G. Galpern’s computations. It remained in the shadow until after the discovery of buckminsterfullerene in 1985. Ivan V. Stankevich contributed substantially to the computational study but his name did not figure among its authors. He was a pioneer in researching new allotropes of carbon.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":780,"journal":{"name":"Structural Chemistry","volume":"36 4","pages":"1531 - 1533"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Structural Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11224-025-02476-9","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 1973 paper described a stable C60 molecule of truncated icosahedral shape from Elena G. Galpern’s computations. It remained in the shadow until after the discovery of buckminsterfullerene in 1985. Ivan V. Stankevich contributed substantially to the computational study but his name did not figure among its authors. He was a pioneer in researching new allotropes of carbon.
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Structural Chemistry is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original research papers that cover the condensed and gaseous states of matter and involve numerous techniques for the determination of structure and energetics, their results, and the conclusions derived from these studies. The journal overcomes the unnatural separation in the current literature among the areas of structure determination, energetics, and applications, as well as builds a bridge to other chemical disciplines. Ist comprehensive coverage encompasses broad discussion of results, observation of relationships among various properties, and the description and application of structure and energy information in all domains of chemistry.
We welcome the broadest range of accounts of research in structural chemistry involving the discussion of methodologies and structures,experimental, theoretical, and computational, and their combinations. We encourage discussions of structural information collected for their chemicaland biological significance.