The metal atoms, which coordinate to cysteine residues and inorganic sulfide ligands are ordinated in a
cubane structure, like the one described for [[Fe.sub.4][S.sub.4]] clusters.
Jursic, Computing the Heat of Formation for
Cubane and Tetrahedrane with Density Functional Theory and Complete Basis Set ab Initio Methods, J.
This iron-induced oxidative stress can destabilize the
cubane [4Fe-4S] clusters [37].
Paquette, "Gas-phase basicities of
cubane, dodecahedrane, and methyl-and 1,16-dimethyldodecahedrane as measured by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol.
He also encouraged research on high energy dense and energetic materials and also mentioned the futuristic Octanitro
Cubane, Poly Nitrogen based systems and Insensitive Ammunition.
Azais, T, Bonhomme, C, Bonhomme-Coury, L, Vaissermann, J, Millot, Y, Man, PP, Bertani, P, Hirschinger, J, Livage, J, "
Cubane Shaped Clusters, Precursors for Aluminophosphate Frameworks: A Solid State Multinuclear NMR Study in Time and Frequency Domains." J.
Part two contains chapters on cyclobutarenes; organometallic derivatives; synthesis and reactivity in the photochemistry of cyclobutanes; photodimerization of crystalline olefins in the solvent-free photosynthesis of cyclobutanes; chemistry of
cubane and other prismanes; bicyclo[2.1.0]pentanes and bicyclo[2.2.0]hexanes; fluorinated cyclobutanes and their derivatives; cyclobutane pyrimidine dimmers as ultraviolet-induced DNA lesions; and
cubanes, fenestranes, ladderanes, and other oligocyclobutanoids.
More recently, studies have been undertaken to elucidate the dynamical properties and their relation to structure of carbonaceous molecular solids such as the nearly spherical buckminsterfullerene ([C.sub.60]) (149,150), and
cubane ([C.sub.8][H.sub.8]) in which the carbon atoms reside at the corners of a cube with the H atoms outside of them along the body diagonals (151,152).
US -- For 20 years, researchers at the University of Chicago and the Naval Research Laboratory labored to find a use for
cubane, one of the world's densest hydrocarbons.
Eaton synthesized the parent compound,
cubane, in 1964.
Structures have been optimized for [4]-prismane (
cubane), [5]-prismane, [6]-prismane, and pentaasterane using several levels of theory.