✦ LIBER ✦
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,