Platos Hydrocarbons and Related Structures

in more rationalistic times, these curious views were abandoned and nearly forgotten until, in the middle of the 20th century, the paradigm of perfection came to the minds of organic chemists (though in a very transformed shape). This time the problem was more modest in comparison with the 

While tetrahedrane 1 remains an elusive goal, some of its tetrasubstituted derivatives, namely tetra-tert-butyl- and (trimethylsilyl)-tri-t Tt-butyltetrahe-dranes (4 and 5, respectively, vide infra) have been synthesized by Maier s group.  

a number of various reactions are known which proceed with surprising ease for 2 and its derivatives. For example, the stepwise catalytic hydro-genolysis of three C-C bonds in cubane occurs rapidly at room temperature (a rather unique transformation for a saturated hydrocarbon) with a release of 50, 

Recent advances in the area of cubane chemistry are truly amazing. In fact, the high strain energy of cubane itself should have been taken as an unequivocal 

Hydrocarbon 15 represents the first member of the new family of oligomers composed of cubyl units. A set of other representatives of this class was 

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