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The structure and dynamics of C60 and C70 fullerenes in the solid state are briefly reviewed. Solid C60 shows a first-order phase transition at 260 K from a face-centred to a simple cubic structure. The isotropic molecular reorientations change abruptly to quasi-random jump motion between nearly-degenerate orientations differing in energy by 11.4 (3) meV. A transition to an orientation glass state occurs at 85 K. Static disorder dominates the crystal chemistry of C70. The orientational ordering transition of the face-centred-cubic phase at 280 K is accompanied by severe hysteresis effects. The rotational dynamic behaviour changes progressively on cooling from isotropic to anisotropic to uniaxial reorientations about the unique molecular axis. High pressure diffraction experiments reveal that C70 has a smaller compressibility than C60.
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Prassides, K. (1993). Structure and Dynamics of C60 and C70 . In: Kuzmany, H., Fink, J., Mehring, M., Roth, S. (eds) Electronic Properties of Fullerenes. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85049-3_22
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