Iceane
Iceane is a saturated polycyclic hydrocarbon with formula C12H18. It has a cage-like molecular structure, whose carbon skeleton can be viewed as three fused cyclohexane rings in the boat conformation; or as two such rings in the chair conformation, connected by three parallel (axial) bonds. The spatial arrangement of carbon atoms in Iceane is the lonsdalite crystalline structure.
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IUPAC name
Tetracyclo[5.3.1.12,6.04,9]dodecane | |||
Other names
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C12H18 | |||
Molar mass | 163.56 g/mol | ||
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The name "iceane" was proposed by the chemist Louis Fieser about a decade before the compound was first prepared. He was carrying out studies on the arrangement of water molecules in ice, when it occurred to him that there could exist a stable hydrocarbon with the above structure.[1][2]
It is also referred to as wurtzitane,[3] due to its similarity to the wurtzite crystal structure;[4] however, the name "iceane" has precedence.
References
- Fieser, L. F. (1965). "Extensions in the use of plastic tetrahedral models". J. Chem. Educ. 42 (8): 408–412. doi:10.1021/ed042p408.
- Hargittai, M.; Hargittai, I. (2013). "Polyhedral Molecular Geometries". In Senechal, M. (ed.). Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 153–170, 299. ISBN 9780387927145.
- Tobler, H.; Klaus, R. O.; Ganter, C. (1975). "Wurtzitan (Tetracyclo[5.3.1.12,6.04,9]dodecan)". Helv. Chim. Acta. 58 (5): 1455–1464. doi:10.1002/hlca.19750580522.
- Hamon, D. P. G.; Taylor, G. F. (1976). "A synthesis of tetracyclo[5,3,1,12,6,04,9]dodecane (iceane)". Aust. J. Chem. 29 (8): 1721–1734. doi:10.1071/CH9761721.