Detalles de publicación
PP 010084
INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AND INTEGRATED MOLAR ABSORPTIVITY OF C60 AND C70 FULLERENES AT EXTREME TEMPERATURES
1Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Via Lactea s/n, E-38200, La Laguna,
Tenerife, Spain
2Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Via S. Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy
3Actinium Chemical Research, Via Casilina 1626/A, 00133 Rome, Italy
4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
5 Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
The detection of C60 and C70 fullerenes in young planetary nebulae (Cami et al. 2010; Garcia-Hernandez et al. 2010) and in reflection nebulae (Sellgren et al. 2010) suggest that these molecules are more common in certain astrophysical environments than thought before. The dependence on temperature of the positions and widths of the infrared bands of the C60 and C70 fullerenes is needed for a firm qualitative detection of these molecules in space. Furthermore, the integrated molar absorptivity Ψ (in Km/mol) of each infrared absorption band is required for a quantitative determination of the abundance of C60 and C70 in space. The present work reports on the temperature dependence of the wavelength shift and integrated molar absorptivity of the infrared bands of C60 and C70 fullerenes. The measurements were made in a KBr matrix in a wide range of temperatures comprised between -180°C and +250°C. The experimental data were extrapolated to absolute zero for both the infrared band shift and the integrated molar absorptivity of C60 and C70 fullerenes.
