I Made Cubane First

Check out @ExtractionsAndIre ! It’s all in good fun and we talked about it before. Definitely watch his series for the spider infested shed synthesis of cubane. Thanks to @That_Chemist for making the bromination mechanism and helping with some others 3D Molecule animation of Diels-Alder adduct made by @reformlabs1050 Support my channel with patreon: Cyclopentanone synthesis: Literature I used for all steps (except UV): Literature I used for UV-step and onward: -------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 - 0:52 Intro 0:52 - 5:23 Cyclopentanone 5:23 - 9:11 Cyclopentanone ethylene ketal 9:11 - 15:05 Tribromo 15:05 - 18:39 Diels-Alder adduct 18:39 - 23:11 Deprotection to diketone 23:11 - 25:27 Photoreaction to decahedron 25:27 - 29:53 Cubane dicarboxylic acid 29:53 - 33:32 Cubane dicarboxylate methyl ester -------------------------------------------------------------