Hepta- and Octanitrocubanes

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12 January 2000

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Published by Wiley in Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English

Vol. 39 (2) , 401-404
https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000117)39:2<401::aid-anie401>3.0.co;2-p

Abstract

Four of the eight nitro groups of octanitrocubane 1 are introduced by functional group modification, three more by the astonishingly rapid, low-temperature N₂O₄ nitration of sequentially formed polynitrocubyl anions, and the eighth and last by nitrosation of the heptanitrocubyl anion followed by ozonation.

Keywords

CARBANIONS
CUBANES
EXPLOSIVES
NITRATIONS
NITRO COMPOUNDS