After nearly 20 years of effort, researchers have achieved the synthesis of octanitrocubane, a compound that could be one of the most powerful nonnuclear explosives known.
Octanitrocubane consists of a cube of eight carbons (white) with nitro groups (oxygens in red and nitrogens in blue) attached to each carbon. Gilardi
Philip E.
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