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Structure of solid di-9-pentacyclo[4.3.0.02,4.03,8.05,7]nonyl ether (“Coates' ether”). Bond shortening in an eclipsed bicyclopropyl

✍ Scribed by Sushil Srivastava; S. Chang; J. Lauher; G. Jenner; W.J. le Noble


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1983
Tongue
French
Weight
145 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


The X-ray diffraction pattern of the title compound shows the length of the bicyclopropyl bond to be 1.488 + 0.005 i, comparable to the C2C3 bond length of 1,3-butadiene.

In our synthesis of Coates' alcohol used in connection with the companion study,