Organic synthesis It was the starting material in Leo Paquette's 1982 synthesis of dodecahedrane. The first step involved reductive dimerization of the molecule to give dihydrofulvalene, not simple addition to give dicyclopentadiene.
Organic synth.esis It was the starting material in Leo Paquette's 1982 synthesis of dodecahedrane The first step involved reductive dimerization of the molecule to give dihydrofulvalene not simple addition to give dicyclopentadiene.