Also known as tetramethylethylene
Tetramethylethylene is a hydrocarbon with the formula Me2C=CMe2 (Me = methyl). A colorless liquid, it is the simplest tetrasubstituted alkene.
Tetramethylethylene is a hydrocarbon with the formula Me2C=CMe2 (Me = methyl). A colorless liquid, it is the simplest tetrasubstituted alkene.
==Synthesis== It can be prepared by base-catalyzed isomerization of 2,3-dimethyl-1-butene. Another route involves direct dimerization of propylene. It can also be produced by photolysis of tetramethylcyclobutane-1,3-dione.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).