Geometric modeling of midi-fullerene growth from C 32 to C 60

Axonometric projections together with the corresponding graphs for fullerenes are constructed in the range from 32 to 60. The growth of fullerenes is studied on the basis of a mechanism according to which a carbon dimer embeds in a hexagon of an initial fullerene. This leads to stretching and breaking the covalent bonds which are parallel to arising tensile forces. In this case, instead of a hexagon adjoining two pentagons, two adjacent pentagons adjoining two hexagons are obtained. As a result, there arises a new atomic configuration and there is mass increase of two carbon atoms. We considered the direct descendants of fullerene C32; namely, C2n, where n = 17–30.