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Philip E. Eaton (born 1936) is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Chemistry

Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
 at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. He and his fellow researchers were the first to synthesize the "impossible" cubane
Cubane

Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon molecule that consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a Cube , with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom....
 molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
 in 1964.

Working with Mao-Xi Zhang he is reported as having been the first to make octanitrocubane
Octanitrocubane

Octanitrocubane is a powerful high explosive that, like Trinitrotoluene, is shock-insensitive . The octanitrocubane molecule has the same chemical structure as cubane except that each of the eight hydrogen atoms are replaced by a nitro compound ....
 in 2000 or earlier. Because of its high density and highly strained C-C bonds it was expected to be the most powerful explosive discovered, but apparently has not lived up to expectations.








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Philip E. Eaton (born 1936) is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Chemistry

Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
 at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. He and his fellow researchers were the first to synthesize the "impossible" cubane
Cubane

Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon molecule that consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a Cube , with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom....
 molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
 in 1964.

Working with Mao-Xi Zhang he is reported as having been the first to make octanitrocubane
Octanitrocubane

Octanitrocubane is a powerful high explosive that, like Trinitrotoluene, is shock-insensitive . The octanitrocubane molecule has the same chemical structure as cubane except that each of the eight hydrogen atoms are replaced by a nitro compound ....
 in 2000 or earlier. Because of its high density and highly strained C-C bonds it was expected to be the most powerful explosive discovered, but apparently has not lived up to expectations.

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