Cuneane

Cuneane (C₈H₈, Pentacyclo[3.3.0.0 ^2,4.0^3,7.0^6,8]octane) is a saturated hydrocarbon.^[1] Its name is derived from the Latin “cuneus”, meaning a wedge.^[2] Cuneane may be produced from cubane by metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement.^[3][4] Similar reactions are known for homocubane (C₉H₁₀) and bishomocubane (C₁₀H₁₀).^[5][6]

The cuneane molecule has three groups of equivalent carbon atoms (A, B, C), which have been also confirmed by NMR.^[7] The molecular graph of carbon skeleton of cuneane is regular graph with non-equivalent groups of vertices, and so it is very important test object for different algorithms of mathematical chemistry.^[8][9]

Some cuneane derivatives have liquid crystals properties.^[10]

External links

• 2D and 3D Models of Dodecahedrane and Cuneane Assemblies Link

References

1. ^ with 3D-structure (however molecular graph of cuneane is a planar graph)
2. ^ R. Criegee, R. Askani (1968). "Octamethylsemibullvalene". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 7 (7): 537. doi:10.1002/anie.196805371. 
3. ^ Michael B. Smith, Jerry March (2001). March’s Advanced Organic Chemistry (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. pp. 1459. ISBN 0-471-58589-0. 
4. ^ Philip E. Eaton, Luigi Cassar, Jack Halpern (1970). "Silver(I)- and palladium(II)-catalyzed isomerizations of cubane. Synthesis and characterization of cuneane". Journal of the American Chemical Society 92 (21): 6366–6368. doi:10.1021/ja00724a061. 
5. ^ Leo A. Paquette and John C. Stowell (1970). "Silver ion catalyzed rearrangements of strained .sigma. bonds. Application to the homocubyl and 1,1'-bishomocubyl systems". Journal of the American Chemical Society 92 (8): 2584–2586. doi:10.1021/ja00711a082. 
6. ^ W. G. Dauben, M. G. Buzzolini, C. H. Schallhorn, D. L. Whalen, K. J. Palmer (1970). "Thermal and silver ion catalyzed isomerization of the 1,1′-bishomocubane system: preparation of a new C₁₀H₁₀isomer". Tetrahedron Letters 11 (10): 787–790. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)97830-X. 
7. ^ H. Guenther and W. Herrig (1973). "Anwendungen der ¹³C-Resonanz-Spektroskopie, X. ¹³C,¹³C-Kopplungskonstanten in Methylencycloalkanen". Chemische Berichte 106 (12): 3938–3950. doi:10.1002/cber.19731061217. 
8. ^ M.I. Trofimov, E.A. Smolenskii (2000). "Electronegativity of atoms of ring-containing molecules—NMR spectroscopy data correlations: a description within the framework of topological index approach". Russian Chemical Bulletin 49 (3): 402. doi:10.1007/BF02494766. 
9. ^ M.I. Trofimov, E.A. Smolenskii (2005). "Application of the electronegativity indices of organic molecules to tasks of chemical informatics". Russian Chemical Bulletin 54 (9): 2235. doi:10.1007/s11172-006-0105-6. 
10. ^ Bényei, Gyula; Jalsovszky, István; Demus, Dietrich; Prasad, Krishna; Rao, Shankar; Vajda, Anikó; Jákli, Antal; Fodor‐Csorba, Katalin (2006). "First liquid crystalline cuneane‐caged derivatives: a structure-property relationship study". Liquid Crystals 33 (6): 689–696. doi:10.1080/02678290600722940.