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Tetracyclopropylmethane
Sign in to saveTetracyclopropylmethane is an organic compound, a polycyclic hydrocarbon with formula C13H20, or (C3H5-)4C. The carbon skeleton of its molecule consists of four cyclopropane rings attached to a central carbon atom.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C13H20
- Molecular weight
- 176.3 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- tricyclopropylmethylcyclopropane
- SMILES
- C1CC1C(C2CC2)(C3CC3)C4CC4
- InChIKey
- KXAOPBGXMXVCRN-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 4.8
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 176.15650064
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- canonical SMILES
- C1(CC1)C(C2CC2)(C3CC3)C4CC4
- chemical formula
- C₁₃H₂₀
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Tetracyclopropylmethane is an organic compound, a polycyclic hydrocarbon with formula C13H20, or (C3H5-)4C. The carbon skeleton of its molecule consists of four cyclopropane rings attached to a central carbon atom.
This compound was synthesized in 2001 by Armin de Meijere and others, with dicyclopropyldiethenylmethane as an intermediate step. In the solid state, the molecules have a propeller shape with S4 symmetry.
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