J. E. Fischer, P. A. Heiney, and A. B. Smith, III, Accounts of Chem. Res. 25, 112-118 (1992).
The availability of "large" quantities of Buckminsterfullerene (C60), and the related fullerenes (C70, etc.) has generated an explosion of research activity by synthetic and physical chemists. It is now evident that fullerene-derived solids are equally exciting, both from the fundamental and potential technological viewpoints, and that these solids possess many novel properties of interest to physicists and materials scientists. The 1985 Kroto/Smalley and 1990 Huffman/Kratschmer discoveries have indeed provided something for everyone! In this review, we summarize what we have learned in the past 12 months about the pristine fullerene solids (or ``fullerites'') C60 and C70, and a variety of chemically-modified solids. The emphasis is on synthetic methods, structure determinations and phase transitions. Finally we describe a new modified fullerene "C60 monoxide" which may lead to interesting new solid phases.
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