Classics in Hydrocarbon Chemistry: Syntheses, Concepts, Perspectives

Preface
FROM SIMPLE BUILDING BLOCKS TO COMPLEX TARGET MOLECULES AND MULTIFACETED REACTIONS
ADAMANTANE AND OTHER CAGE HYDROCARBONS
Adamantane
Higher analogs of adamantane
Twistane
Tetraasterane
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THE PRISMANES
Triprismane
[5]-Prismane
En route to hexaprismane
References
THE PLATONIC HYDROCARBONS
Tetrahedrane
Cubane ([4]-prismane)
Dodecahedrane
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BRIDGEHEAD-DISTORTED HYDROCARBONS
Propellanes
Fenestranes
out,out, out,in and in,in Hydrocarbons
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ALKENES
Linear conjugated polyenes
Cyclopropene, the smallest cycloolefin and how it can be used in hydrocarbon synthesis
Large-ring cycloalkenes by transition metal-catalyzed oligomerization of dienes
Distorted olefins: trans-cycloalkenes, anti-Bredt-hydrocarbons, betweenanenes, and pyramidalized olefins
Tetrakis-tert-butylethene - an exercise in preparative futility
References
ALKYNES
Polyacetylenes - rods made of carbon
Angle-strained cycloalkynes
Medium and large-ring alkynes
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ALLENES AND CUMULENES
Acyclic allenes
Acyclic cumulenes
Cyclic allenes
Cyclic cumulenes
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THE ANNULENES
1,3-Cyclobutadiene
Benzene and its isomers
Cyclooctatetraene and the (CH)8 isomers
The higher annulenes
Bridged annulenes
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CROSS-CONJUGATED AND RELATED HYDROCARBONS
The dendralenes
The fulvenes
The fulvalenes
Pentalene, azulene, heptalene and other zero-bridged annulenes
The [n]radialenes
The [n]rotanes
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LEAVING THE P-PLANE-NON-PLANAR AROMATIC COMPOUNDS
The helicenes
The circulenes
The cyclophanes
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL OLIGOOLEFINS
Barrelene
Triptycene and the iptycenes
Bullvalene and semibullvalene
Triquinacene
Spiropolyenes, stellapolyenes and related hydrocarbons
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EXTENDED SYSTEMS I. FROM BENZENE TO GRAPHITE SUBSTRUCTURES
Linearly annelated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Angularly annelated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Condensed aromatic hydrocarbons with ribbon structures
Graphite substructures
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EXTENDED SYSTEMS II. BEYOND THE PAH PATTERN
From biphenylene to linear and angular [n]phenylenes
Extended structures containing triple bonds
Building with cyclopropane rings
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CLASSICS IN HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS: THREE EXAMPLES FROM PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
The dehydrobenzenes
Non-Kekulé hydrocarbons
Bond fixation in benzene rings
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Author Index
Subject Index