Cubane: 50 years later

KF Biegasiewicz, JR Griffiths, GP Savage… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The fascination with elaborate molecular architectures that differ significantly from those
ordinarily present in nature have motivated synthetic, physical organic, and theoretical …

Mechanochemistry of cubane

L Wang, X Zheng, TB Kouznetsova, T Yen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the mechanochemical reactivity of the highly strained pentacyclic hydrocarbon
cubane. The mechanical reactivity of cubane is explored for three regioisomers with 1, 2-, 1 …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of alkali and alkaline earth metals doped cubanes as high-performance nonlinear optical materials by first-principles study

J Naeem, R Bano, K Ayub, T Mahmood… - Journal of Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Novel organic materials have played a tremendous role in developing high-performance
nonlinear optical materials. Herein, the geometric, electronic and nonlinear optical …

Nonorthogonal tight-binding model with H–C–N–O parameterisation

MM Maslov, AI Podlivaev, KP Katin - Molecular Simulation, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
A parametric nonorthogonal tight-binding model (NTBM1) with the set of parameters for H–C–
N–O systems is presented. This model compares well with widely used semi-empirical AM1 …

Approaches to 1, 4‐Disubstituted Cubane Derivatives as Energetic Materials: Design, Theoretical Studies and Synthesis

S Lal, A Bhattacharjee, A Chowdhury… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Novel 1, 4‐disubstituted cubane derivatives have been designed and selected
ones have been successfully synthesized and characterized by various analytical and …

Pilot-scale production of dimethyl 1, 4-cubanedicarboxylate

MJ Falkiner, SW Littler, KJ McRae… - … Process Research & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A scalable process for the preparation of high purity dimethyl 1, 4-cubanedicarboxylate (3) is
reported. The work described herein builds on previous synthetic work from this and other …

High kinetic stability of hypercubane: Tight-binding molecular dynamics study

MM Maslov, KP Katin - Chemical Physics Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Using tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations we study thermal stability of the
hypothetical hydrocarbon hypercube or tesseract which is called hypercubane over the wide …

Influence of methyl functional groups on the stability of cubane carbon cage

KP Katin, VS Prudkovskiy, MM Maslov - Physica E: Low-Dimensional …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a quantum-chemical study to elucidate the structure, energetics and stability of
isolated polymethylcubane molecules C 8 H 8–q (CH 3) q. The results obtained by means of …

Theoretical studies on the propulsive and explosive performance of strained polycyclic cage compounds

L Mallick, S Lal, S Reshmi, INN Namboothiri… - New Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Compounds consisting of a carbon-based cage have a highly strained molecular structure
and have become the subject of interest in recent years because they possess high heat of …

Thermal desorption of hydrogen from graphane

LA Openov, AI Podlivaev - Technical Physics Letters, 2010 - Springer
The process of hydrogen desorption from graphane (graphene sheet saturated by hydrogen
adsorbed from both sides) has been studied using the method of molecular dynamics. The …