Basketane is a polycyclic alkane with the chemical formula C10H12. The name is taken from its structural similarity to a basket shape. Basketane was first synthesized in 1966, independently by Masamune and Dauben and Whalen.
Basketane is a polycyclic alkane with the chemical formula C10H12. The name is taken from its structural similarity to a basket shape. Basketane was first synthesized in 1966, independently by Masamune and Dauben and Whalen.
== Nomenclature == Some compounds are named for objects seen in everyday life. Cubane, housane, and basketane were named accordingly.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).