Atlas of Kekulé valence structures of buckminsterfullerene Croat

The 12,500 Kekulé valence structures of Buckminsterfullerene C60, of which only 158 are sym-metry distinct, show large variation in their forms and characteristics. We display all 158 sym-metry distinct Kekulé valence structures which have been classified according to their innate degree of freedom (df), which varies from the maximal value of df = 10 to df = 5. The most important and unique Kekulé valence structure in which CC double bonds are exocyclic to pentagonal faces belongs to df = 10, while there are 36 symmetry distinct Kekulé structures as-sociated with df = 5