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Six fullerenes are perfectly chiral:

Point group T: C44, C52, C92, C100
Point group I: C140, C260

Parity Divergent Molecules
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If you want a listing by carbon number and point group symmetry of all allowed fullerenes through C260+, it's a 4 MB ZIP archive. However... their structures are only crudely minimized. You'd have to run each coordinate set of interest through BABELwin into *.hin format and then MM+ mininmize in HyperChem-Lite after auto-assigning atom types.

Uncle Al,
at last we meet (in a manner of speaking). It is an honor. I thoroughly enjoy your posts, as well as your rapier wit. I suspect you know a great deal about one of my interests: fullerene chemistry. I must say however that my interests are tempered by the sobering fact that as a NASA "rocket scientist", I am (by definition) not an expert in anything.
Take care.

i agree definitely Datura. maybe Datura discolor ? Datura discolor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

on the Datura id Al, i don't think D. metel because of the very thorny fruit Destrb has photographed. according to wicked pediac D. metel has lumpy fruit with few thorns. Datura metel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia i see at the same link that D. metel has oval leaves, and again Distrbt's photo not oval but lobed. over...

as to shoes falling identically, not in a wind they don't.

i got the contest page read last night, very cool idea, and your entry intro and the comments you have accrued. i have to go back to your full pdf but i'm presuming it is the experiment as you have described it here before. anyway, so-far-so-good and i voted my concience with a big phat 10. maybe now, someone will look.

the last thing either of us wants is to look like everybody else. i saw the new thread & will be reading the link & your entry soon. always my pleasure to get your spin on things.

hello uncle al, i dont believe we have met- i am Pamela
i am enjoying your posts as well as your essay-thank you

Any luck with the clusters Al?

Lovin' the beard Al. I keep trying to grow one, but I can never find the time to not shave.