M. I. Heggie et al. / Local density functional modelling of the Stone-Wales transformation in fullerenes

Figure 3.  Stone-Wales transformation transition states for C₆₀H: (a) left, has the hydrogen on the sp² handle of the rotating C₂ pair (+5.34 eV); (b) right, is the true saddle point (+4.75 eV).

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• Figure 1.  Schematic illustration of the Stone-Wales transformation.
• Figure 2.  Energy surface for the Stone-Wales transformation in C₆₀.

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