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Experimental Access to Centropolycyclic Carbon Compounds Containing the Massive C17-Core: On the Way to D5 Seeds

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The construction of complex three-dimensional all-carbon molecular scaffolds from simple indane precursors to centropolycyclic structures bearing a core of 17 quaternary carbon atoms is described. This \( {\rm C}^{q}_{17} \)-core represents the carbon framework of centrohexaindane, a topologically nonplanar C41H24 hydrocarbon. Some derivatives of centrohexaindane are also presented. Besides the various experimental routes to centrohexaindane and the congeneric lower centropolyindanes, including benzoannellated propellanes, triquinacenes and fenestrindanes, the quite limited access to partially benzoannellated centrohexaquinanes including (mono-) benzocentrohexaquinane is described. By contrast, the purely alicyclic parent, centrohexaquinane, and the corresponding hexaolefin, centrohexaquinacene, are both still elusive and, thus, challenging targets of organic chemistry, especially in view of their potential role as molecular seeds of D5-diamond owing to their unique \( {\rm C}^{q}_{17} \)-core.

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Kuck, D. (2013). Experimental Access to Centropolycyclic Carbon Compounds Containing the Massive C17-Core: On the Way to D5 Seeds. In: Diudea, M., Nagy, C. (eds) Diamond and Related Nanostructures. Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6371-5_3

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