“…Naturally, this interest has extended to STM, yielding many fascinating studies and images involving surface-adsorbed C 60 molecules exposed to electronrich doping agents. 9,[29][30][31]34,35 Unfortunately, the doping agents ͑usually alkali metals because of their high electropositivity and volatility͒ do not show up in the resulting STM images and so their effect on the local site symmetry is uncertain. However, their presence on the surface could well be expected to perturb the MOs to an even greater extent than that caused by the surface alone, perhaps leading to complete loss of degeneracy.…”