Resizable buckminsterfullerene

Question

In this post How to draw a fullerene I asked how to draw a fullerene. This is a complex chemical structure and was nicely answered by @GRSousaJr (https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/184980/grsousajr)

However, I need to resize it in my text and got mess after trying to change the bonding length.

My question is, is it possible to have a code for resizing such a complex chemical structure?

My tried code was the one below. Sorry if this is a very dumb question, but I am really inexperient in chemfig or any other package as well.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chemfig}

\setchemfig{
    bond offset = 0.75pt,
    double bond sep = 2.5pt,
    bond style = {line width = 0.75pt}
}

\begin{document}
    \definesubmol{fragment}{
        -[::126]-[::-54](=_#(2pt,2pt)[::180])
        -[::-70](-[::-56.2,1.07]=^#(2pt,2pt)[::180,1.07])
        -[::110,0.6](-[::-148,0.60](=^[::180,0.35])-[::-18,1.1])
        -[::50,1.1](-[::18,0.60]=_[::180,0.35])
        -[::50,0.6]
        -[::110]
    }

    \chemfig{
        [,0.5](-[::+18,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::+90,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::162,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::234,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::306,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
    }
\end{document}

Most likely not the most elegant solution, but probably worth a try: {\tiny \chemfig{ (-[::+18,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment}) (-[::+90,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment}) (-[::162,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment}) (-[::234,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment}) (-[::306,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment}) }}. — leandriis, Oct 03 '19 at 20:52
I don't know of a generalizable way to do this, but you can use these two sites in combination with each other: https://py-chemist.com/mol_2_chemfig/home to get a smiles string for a fullerene and then feed the string into this site (http://chimpsky.uwaterloo.ca/mol2chemfig/webiface) where you can alter the scaling. Specifically, use the bond-scale and bond-stretch options on the web-interface. — pdanese, Oct 03 '19 at 21:09

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '19 at 12:35

You can use atom sep parameter. If necessary minor adjustments can be made using double bond sep.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chemfig}
\pagestyle{empty}

\setchemfig{
    bond offset = 0.75pt,
    double bond sep = 2.5pt,
    bond style = {line width = 0.75pt}
}

\begin{document}
    \definesubmol{fragment}{
        -[::126]-[::-54](=_#(2pt,2pt)[::180])
        -[::-70](-[::-56.2,1.07]=^#(2pt,2pt)[::180,1.07])
        -[::110,0.6](-[::-148,0.60](=^[::180,0.35])-[::-18,1.1])
        -[::50,1.1](-[::18,0.60]=_[::180,0.35])
        -[::50,0.6]
        -[::110]
    }

    \definesubmol{fullerene}{
        (-[::+18,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::+90,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::162,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::234,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::306,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
    }
    % Small-sized
    \setchemfig{atom sep=15pt}\chemfig{!{fullerene}}\quad
    % Medium-sized
    \setchemfig{atom sep=20pt}\chemfig{!{fullerene}}\quad
    % Big-sized
    \setchemfig{atom sep=25pt}\chemfig{!{fullerene}}

\end{document}

Result

GRSousaJr, Show! Is it possible to paint the pentagons black? — Benedito Freire, Mar 29 '22 at 00:00
@BeneditoFreire, I don't think so. I found nothing about that on chemfig's manual. — grsousajunior, Mar 29 '22 at 16:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '19 at 12:40

Easy scaling with \scalebox:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chemfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\setchemfig{
    bond offset = 0.75pt,
    double bond sep = 2.5pt,
    bond style = {line width = 0.75pt}
}

\begin{document}
    \definesubmol{fragment}{
        -[::126]-[::-54](=_#(2pt,2pt)[::180])
        -[::-70](-[::-56.2,1.07]=^#(2pt,2pt)[::180,1.07])
        -[::110,0.6](-[::-148,0.60](=^[::180,0.35])-[::-18,1.1])
        -[::50,1.1](-[::18,0.60]=_[::180,0.35])
        -[::50,0.6]
        -[::110]
    }

    \chemfig{
        (-[::+18,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::+90,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::162,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::234,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::306,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
    }
\scalebox{0.5}{
    \chemfig{
        (-[::+18,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::+90,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::162,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::234,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::306,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
    }
}
\scalebox{0.1}{
    \chemfig{
        (-[::+18,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::+90,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::162,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::234,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
        (-[::306,0.85,,,draw=none]!{fragment})
    }
}
\end{document}

Resizable buckminsterfullerene

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