Octanitrocubane

Stable, colorless solid

Fixed

1.98 g · cm -3

Poorly in hexane, well in many polar organic solvents

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Octanitrocubane (short ONC ) is a chemical compound with the formula C8 ( NO2) 8, which can be used as an explosive.

Octanitrocubane was first synthesized in 1999 at the University of Chicago by the chemists Philip E. Eaton.

The molecule has a structure of eight carbon atoms that form a cube. At each carbon atom is a nitro group is attached. It is a derivative of the hydrocarbon cubane, wherein the eight hydrogen atoms of cubane are each replaced by a nitro group.

The high-energy structure of the cube geometry as well as the balanced oxygen balance, which if ignited a complete intramolecular reaction to eight molecules of carbon dioxide ( CO2) and four molecules of nitrogen (N2 ) causes represent one of the conditions for an explosive explosives dar.

By the high voltage of the carbon skeleton, however, the production is very difficult to accomplish. Octanitrocubane can be represented by a number of different incremental nitration of multiple cubanes nitrided.