. The minor constituents of toluene extracts of three fullerene-rich materials have been characterized by on-line LC-MS techniques, incorporating both positive and negative ion mass spectra obtained by atmospheric pressure chemical ionization. Two of the materials were soots, produced by resistive heating of graphite in an inert atmosphere, from different commercial suppliers. The third material was obtained as a condensate from a controlled laminar flame, and was shown previously (Anacleto et al:, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 6 , 214 (1992)) to contain significant quantities of compounds that behaved under the present LC-MS conditions as isomers of the C, and C,, fullerenes, and which reverted to the latter upon heating. This finding was confirmed here, and extended to the higher clusters C,,, C,,, C,,, and C,,. One of the graphite-derived soots contained monoxides of the carbon clusters as the principal minor components, while the other soot contained hydrogenated species including CsoHz, CWHJ, C70H2r and (C6,. CHI). The flame-generated material contained all of these minor constituents, together with complexes of C, with larger aliphatic molecules as well as large quantities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and related species. Photo-oxidation of a purified C,, preparation, from the graphitic soot containing mostly monoxide impurities, was shown to lead to increased levels of the mono-, di-, and tri-oxides of CGO. Chem. 70, 2558Chem. 70, (1992.Faisant appel i i des techniques de LC-MS incorporant des spectres de masse des ions tant positifs que negatifs obtenus par des ionisations chimiques rCalisCes a la pression atmospherique, on a caractkrise les constituants mineurs obtenus par extraction au toluene de trois materiaux riches en fullerhe. Deux des matCriaux Ctaient des suies fournies par differents fournisseurs commerciaux et obtenue par chauffage de graphite par resistance dans une atmosphkre inerte. Le troisieme materiel a Cte obtenu sous forme de produit de condensation d'une flamrne laminaire contr616e; il a 6tC dCmontr6 antkrieurement (Anacleto et al., Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 6, 214 (1992)) que ce materiel contient des quantites importantes de produits qui se comportent, dans les conditions actuelles de LC-MS, comme des isomeres des fullerknes en C, et en C7, et qui se transfoment en ces derniers par chauffage. On a confirm6 cette conclusion dans le present travail et on l'a Ctendue aux agregats plus importants C76, C84, C90 et C,,. L'une des suies provenant du graphite contient des monoxydes des agrCgats carbonks comme constituants mineurs principaux alors que l'autre contient des especes hydrogCnCes incluant le C6,H2, le C,,H,, le CwH2 et (C,, . CH,). Le materiel gCnCrC par une flamme contient tous ces constituants mineurs en plus de complexes du C,, avec des molCcules aliphatiques plus grosses ainsi que des quantitks irnportantes d'hydrocarbures aromatiques polycycliques et d'especes apparentees. On a montre que la photo-oxydation d'une preparation purifiee de C,, obtenue 2 partir de sui...