Adamantane solid support

Potential energy calculations have been employed in a description of the dynamic structure of adamantane and the nature of the order-disorder phase transition, as well as the mechanism of self-diffusion in the molecular solid. Theoretical calculations on the acid-catalysed hydrolysis of aliphatic esters lend support to the use of Taft , values as a measure of steric effects of alkyl groups correlation of with relative rate data (log k,., ) is discussed as well as that with steric energy parameters (from force-field calculations), which are found to parallel AAH values. " The same authors have outlined a new source of data of use in the estimations of van der Waals strain in hydrocarbons (including norbornane and adamantane). 

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