Philip E. Eaton (b. 1936) is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He and his fellow researchers were the first to synthesize the "impossible" cubane molecule in 1964. Working with Mao-Xi Zhang he is reported as having been the first to make Octanitrocubane 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. Wikipedia
... Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Philip E. Eaton Professor Emeritus Office: 929 E. 57th St., GCIS E 203, Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773)702-7088 Fax: (773)702-0805 Email: eaton@uchicago.edu... chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/eaton.shtml
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