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Book SynopsisContributions in this volume examine the role of hydrocarbons in several areas of chemistry, including the multicenter bonding of hydrocarbons relative to the chemistry of main group elements, organometallics, cluster chemistry, carbocations and hydrocarbon chemistry.
Table of ContentsMy Thirty Years in Hydrocarbon Cages: From Adamantane toDodecahedrane (P. Schleyer).
Catalytic Routes to Adamantane and Its Homologues (M. McKervey& J. Rooney).
The Superacid Route to 1-Adamantyl Cation (T. Sorensen & S.Whitworth).
Carbocations and Electrophilic Reactions of Cage Hydrocarbons (G.Olah).
Fragmentation and Transannular Cyclization Routes to CageHydrocarbons (A. Yurchenko).
Bridgehead Reactivity in Solvolysis Reactions (P. Muller & J.Mareda).
Stabilization of Cage Compounds through Steric Hindrance bytert-Butyl Groups (G. Maier, et al.).
Homologues of Barrelene, Bullvalene, and Benzene: Concepts,Questions, and Results (A. de Meijere).
The [n]Peristylane-Polyhedrane Connection (L. Paquette).
The Pagodane Route to Dodecahedrane (W. Fessner & H.Prinzbach).
Author Index.
Subject Index.
