Add 20
Fluorine atoms to C
60 and you get
C
60F
20. The
Fluorine atoms arrange themselves in a
ring and squash the
buckyball soccer ball shape into an
oblate spheroidal shape. Thus the discoverers of this
molecule dubbed it
Saturnene from the resemblance to
Saturn and its
rings.
Reference:
Olga V. Boltalina, Vitaly Yu. Markov, Pavel A. Troshin,
Adam D. Darwish, Joan M. Street, Roger Taylor:
"C60F20: "Saturnene", an Extraordinary Squashed Fullerene",
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001, 40, No. 4, 787-789.