Something special crystallized at the bottom of a flask, a cuneane based compound, what was obtained by the rearrangement of a cubane based molecule.

What is cubane and what is cuneane and what is this rearrangement? Cubane (1) is a square shaped and cuneane (2) is an wedge shaped molecule, both are strained.



For more information read this recently published article what was published by my supervisor:

Solvent-induced, selective rearrangement of hydrogen cubane-1,4-dicarboxylate to hydrogen cuneane-2,6-dicarboxylate

Gábor Durkó, István Jalsovszky

Tetrahedron, Volume 69, Issue 25, Pages 5160–5163

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