PPT Slide

Porkanes

1,1,2,2,3-pentamethylbicyclo[2,1,0]pentan

Porco A.A., Maladetto B.B.: Porcane - believe it or not,

Atti Taliani 39, 151 (1956).

-ut: A New Type of Natural Compound, Chemie 9, 459 (1957).

note the compensation

between pentavalent

and trivalent carbon

its 3,5-diol was isolated from the non saponificable fraction of

the porcine lard (fat)