Cuneane

Cuneane (from Latin cuneus 'wedge'[1]) is a saturated hydrocarbon with the formula C8H8 and a 3D structure resembling a wedge, hence the name.

Cuneane may be produced from cubane by metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement.

[4][5] The carbon atoms in the cuneane molecule form a hexahedron with point group C2v.

The cuneane molecule has three kinds of equivalent carbon atoms (A, B, C), which have also been confirmed by NMR.

[6] The molecular graph of the carbon skeleton of cuneane is a regular graph with non-equivalent groups of vertices, and so it is a very important test object for different algorithms of mathematical chemistry.

Ball and stick model of cuneane (1R,2R,3S,4S,5S,6R,7R,8S)
Ball and stick model of cuneane (1R,2R,3S,4S,5S,6R,7R,8S)
Synthesis of cuneane from cubane
Equivalent carbon atoms in cuneane