MODULAR CARBON

There are other "modular" carbon allotropes that we could do a short paper on each one. "modular" meaning a 3D pattern constructed from a repeating molecular model molecule extended in 1- and 2- and 3-dimensions. The 2 most obvious ones are "iso-exocyclobutadieneite" and "squaro-exocyclobutadieneite". Each one is constructed from a 1,3-dimethylene-cyclobutane building block.........or exocyclobutadiene building block. And there may be a pattern relevant to carbon by using a generating fragment I call 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15-octamethylene-cyclotetradecane..........this would form the next member of the series (A) 1,3-dimethylene-cyclobutane (exocyclobutadieneite) (B) 1,3,5-trimethylene-cyclohexane (trigohexagonite) (C) 1,3,5,7-tetramethylene-cyclooctane (glitter) (D) 1,3,5,7.9.11-hexamethylene-cyclododecane (hexagonite) and then on to (E)  1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15-octamethylene-cyclotetradecane (octagonite)............I can make some drawings by hand and scan them in and email them to you if you are interested in looking in to these ideas more. Also I could make framework models here and mail them out to you.........so as to get a feel for the models by handling them.