Computer generation and theoretical study of alicyclic caged structures without small-size cycles

Computer design was concocted for a series of caged alicyclic structures without small cycles. With the help of molecular-mechanical calculations, the enthalpies of formation and the strain energies were determined for the corresponding compounds. The possibility of tile existence of highly strained frameworks without small cycles was analyzed.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2430–2437, October, 1996.