The preferred conformation of erythro- and threo-1,2-difluorocyclododecanes

• Yi Wang,
• Peer Kirsch,
• Tomas Lebl,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and
• David O'Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1271–1278, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.143

• –F bond endo into the ring, and appear to benefit from C–CHF–C angle widening, which relaxes 1,4-H,H transannular interactions. Keywords: alicyclic chemistry; conformational analysis; cyclododecane; 19F NMR; organo-fluorine chemistry; transannular interactions; Introduction The conformation of

Reciprocal polyhedra and the Euler relationship: cage hydrocarbons, C_nH_n and closo-boranes [B_xH_x]²⁻

• Michael J. McGlinchey and
• Henning Hopf

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 222–233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.30

• and will remain at the forefront of alicyclic chemistry until a stepwise synthesis of C60 is achieved. However, we note en passant that Scott, de Meijere and their colleagues have devised a rational route to C60 from a chlorinated precursor, C60H27Cl3, in which only the final ring closures were