Cuneane

Short description: Saturated hydrocarbon compound (C8H8)

Cuneane

Names
Preferred IUPAC name

Pentacyclo[3.3.0.02,4.03,7.06,8]octane

Identifiers

CAS Number

* 20656-23-9 Y

3D model (JSmol)

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* 124127 Y

PubChem CID

* 140734

InChI

* InChI=1S/C8H8/c1-2-5(1)6-3-4(6)8(2)7(1)3/h1-8H Y

Key: YIJMEXRVJPVGIY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y

SMILES

* C12C3C4C3C5C1C2C45

Properties

Chemical formula

| C8H8
Molar mass | 104.152 g·mol−1
Density | 1.578 g/ml

Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

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Cuneane (from la cuneus 'wedge'[1]) is a saturated hydrocarbon with the formula C

8 and a 3D structure resembling a wedge, hence the name. Cuneane may be produced from cubane by metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement.[2][3] Similar reactions are known for homocubane (C

10) and bishomocubane (C
10H
12).[4][5]

Synthesis of cuneane from cubane

## Molecular geometry

The carbon atoms in the cuneane molecule form a hexahedron with point group C2v. The cuneane molecule has three kinds of equivalent carbon atoms (A, B, C), which have also been confirmed by NMR.[6] The molecular graph of the carbon skeleton of cuneane is a regular graph with non-equivalent groups of vertices, and so it is a very important test object for different algorithms of mathematical chemistry.[7][8]

Equivalent carbon atoms in cuneane

## Derivatives

Some cuneane derivatives have liquid crystal properties.[9]

## References

1. ↑ R. Criegee; R. Askani (1968). "Octamethylsemibullvalene". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 7 (7): 537. doi:10.1002/anie.196805371.
2. ↑ Michael B. Smith; Jerry March (2001). March's Advanced Organic Chemistry (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. pp. 1459. ISBN 0-471-58589-0.
3. ↑ 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. Bibcode: 1970JAChS..92.6366E.
4. ↑ Leo A. Paquette; 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. Bibcode: 1970JAChS..92.2584P.
5. ↑ 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 C10H10 isomer". Tetrahedron Letters 11 (10): 787–790. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)97830-X.
6. ↑ H. Guenther; 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.
7. ↑ M.I. Trofimov; E.A. Smolenskii (2000). "Electronegativity of atoms of ring-containing molecules—NMR spectroscopy data correlations: a description within the framework of the topological index approach". Russian Chemical Bulletin 49 (3): 402. doi:10.1007/BF02494766.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2006LoCr...33..689B.

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