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Biogenic fullerenes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2004

Dieter Heymann ,
Leonardus W. Jenneskens ,
Jan Jehlicka ,
Carola Koper  and
Edward J. Vlietstra
Dieter Heymann
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77001-1892, USA e-mail: dieter@ruf.rice.edu
Leonardus W. Jenneskens
Affiliation:
Debye Institute, Department of Physical Organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jan Jehlicka
Affiliation:
Institute of Geochemistry, Charles University, 12843 Prague, Czech Republic
Carola Koper
Affiliation:
Debye Institute, Department of Physical Organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Edward J. Vlietstra
Affiliation:
Debye Institute, Department of Physical Organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Abstract

If the discoveries of C60 and C70 fullerenes in terrestrial hard rocks are real, then some of these may have formed in the solid state by dehydrogenation-driven ‘zip-up’ of C60Hn and C70Hm progenitors. At three sites of such fullerene discoveries the building blocks for these large molecules may have come from algal remains.

Keywords

algaedehydrogenationfullereneshard rocksmetamorphismpolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonszip-up
Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Astrobiology , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 179 - 183
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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