The electron-beam catalysis reaction of C60 and benzene homologue

The effect of electron-beam irradiation on the C60-benzene homologue solutions was investigated. The structure of C60 is found unchanged when it is exposed to the electron beam at room temperature under normal atmospheric pressure. However, a lot of brown deposition will be produced when the C60 dissolved in benzene homologue is irradiated with electron beam. The infrared spectra of these brown deposits show typical IR absorption peaks of C60, benzene, toluene and xylene. Supernatants of the irradiated C60-benzene homologue solution are measured by an UV spectrometer, showing that there is no C60 species in the supernatants of both C60-benzene and C60-toluene solution, while in the xylene solvent some quantity of C60 can still be observed