Making Cubane Finale - It's Done

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In this video I finish the 4 month long journey to make the legendary cubane 1,4-dicarboxylic acid methyl ester while creating an assortment of tars some of which probably contain my product.

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Reference papers:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA210...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/...
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic...

0:00 Intro
1:05 Diketal deprotection to diketone
7:49 The scary photoreaction
12:15 Finally creating some cubes (Cubane 1,4-dicarboxylic acid)
15:00 Making a methyl ester of my cubane
16:05 Failing miserably in carrying out a column chromatography
18:24 Outro

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