1, 3-Bishomocubane: a kinetic rock, a thermodynamic powerhouse and a compelling chiral synthetic scaffold

GL Tejashree, A Dave, N Kumbhakarna… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last several decades, saturated polycyclic cage compounds have remained a point
of interest for organic chemists because of their unique characteristics and reactivity. For the …

Design and Synthesis of Cage Molecules as High Energy Density Materials for Aerospace Applications

S Kotha, SR Cheekatla, M Meshram - ChemCatChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This account deals with our work on cage systems that was reported during the past two
decades. Here, we summarized various new synthetic routes to diverse cage polycycles by …

Molecular Acrobatics in Polycyclic Frames: Synthesis of “Kurmanediol” via Post-synthetic Modification of Cage Molecules by Olefinic Metathesis

S Kotha, G Mehta - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report late-stage ring-opening metathesis (ROM), ring-rearrangement metathesis (RRM),
and ring-closing metathesis (RCM) approaches to generate expanded pentacycloundecane …

Approaches to 1, 4‐Disubstituted Cubane Derivatives as Energetic Materials: Design, Theoretical Studies and Synthesis

S Lal, A Bhattacharjee, A Chowdhury… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Novel 1, 4‐disubstituted cubane derivatives have been designed and selected
ones have been successfully synthesized and characterized by various analytical and …

Synthesis and energetic properties of high-nitrogen substituted bishomocubanes

S Lal, L Mallick, S Rajkumar, OP Oommen… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthesis, thermodynamic characterization, and energetic properties of three novel high-
nitrogen bishomocubane-based compounds DADMBHC, DTetzBHC and DPTrizDMBHC are …

Theoretical studies on the propulsive and explosive performance of strained polycyclic cage compounds

L Mallick, S Lal, S Reshmi, INN Namboothiri… - New Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Compounds consisting of a carbon-based cage have a highly strained molecular structure
and have become the subject of interest in recent years because they possess high heat of …

Nitro‐Substituted Bishomocubanes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application as Energetic Materials

S Lal, S Rajkumar, A Tare, S Reshmi… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Several high‐energy‐density strained polycyclic compounds nitromethyl‐l, 3‐
bishomocubane (NMBHC), nitromethylene‐1, 3‐bishomocubane (NMyBHC), and bis …

Synthesis and energetic properties of homocubane based high energy density materials

S Lal, A Chowdhury, N Kumbhakarna… - Organic Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The energetic properties of homocubane derivatives have been evaluated for the first time.
The newly synthesized compounds have been fully characterized by spectroscopic methods …

Droplet combustion studies on two novel energetic propellants, an RP-1 surrogate fuel, and their blends

A Sankaranarayanan, S Lal, INN Namboothiri… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
Droplet combustion behaviour of an RP-1 surrogate fuel (RP-1-s), its constituents, and two
novel energetic fuels–1, 3-bishomocubane dimer (BHCD) and bis (nitratomethyl)-1-3 …

Structural determination of a carbocation-derived rearrangement product observed during Thiele cage opening: insight into the mechanism of an alkyl-extended …

AL Burman, JK Sader, JE Wulff - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
A substituted bishomocubane structure colloquially known as a Thiele cage was previously
observed to undergo an alkyl-extended pinacol-type rearrangement, wherein 1, 2-aryl …