Hepta- and Octanitrocubanes.
Four of the eight nitro groups of octanitrocubane 1 are introduced by functional group modification, three more by the astonishingly rapid, low-temperature N(2)O(4) nitration of sequentially formed polynitrocubyl anions, and the eighth and last by nitrosation of the heptanitrocubyl anion followed by ozonation.
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Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 (USA).
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