The Diels-Alder - Making Cubane Episode 7

We take on a textbook named reaction to work towards our cubane end goal. But will we get textbook results?? Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplosionsAndFire/
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Music is as usual from the Aphex Twin soundcloud dump, track names are:
- 7 ∂ƒ∆
- Luke Vibert Spiral Staircase future Music Competition afx Remix

References: 1997 Lab scale paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244572672_Dimethyl_Cubane-14-dicarboxylate_A_Practical_Laboratory_Scale_Synthesis
2013 Pilot Scale: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/op400181g
"Cubane Derivatives for Propellant Applications" 1989
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA210368.pdf

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