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Cubane
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Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon compound with the formula . It consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substance, cubane is one of the Platonic hydrocarbons and a member of the prismanes. It was first synthesized in 1964 by Philip Eaton and Thomas Cole. Before this work, Eaton believed that cubane would be impossible to synthesize due to the "required 90 degree bond angles". The cubic shape requires the carbon atoms to adopt an unusually sharp 90° bonding angle, which would be highly strained a
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Cubane is referenced by 153 other articles, and connects out to tetrahedral molecular geometry, hydrogen and carbon.
It is catalogued under topics including Cubanes, Cubes and Molecular geometry.
Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C8H8
- Molecular weight
- 104.15 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- cubane
- SMILES
- C12C3C4C1C5C2C3C45
- InChIKey
- TXWRERCHRDBNLG-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.2
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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