Crafting a miniature pagoda.Crafting a miniature pagoda pagoda (pəgō`də), name given in the East to a variety of buildings of tower form that are usually part of a temple or monastery group and serve as shrines. When the structural formula of a remarkable, newly synthesized molecule resembles the shape of an oriental temple, the molecule's informal name can be nothing other than "pagodane.' That was the name coined by a team of German chemists at the University of Freiburg University of Freiburg can refer to:
Formula: The synthesis of pagodane starts with the insecticide insecticide Any of a large group of substances used to kill insects. Such substances are mainly used to control pests that infest cultivated plants and crops or to eliminate disease-carrying insects in specific areas. isodrin, a compound with 12 carbon atoms Noun 1. carbon atom - an atom of carbon atom - (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element already arranged in four five-membered rings. This compound goes through about 45 structural and functional changes before the molecule appears in its final form. Despite the large number of steps needed, the overall process is surprisingly efficient with a yield of 24 percent. Wolf-Dieter Fessner and his colleagues are interested in pagodane because of its close relationship with the molecular sphere dodecahedrane (shown in diagram 2). Changing only a few bonds converts one into the other. By constructing pagodanes with various molecular groups attached to certain corners, the researchers hope to develop a convenient, efficient path for assembling substituted derivatives of dodecahedranes. These highly symmetric molecules are likely to have interesting chemical properties. |
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