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| Keywords: Potassium-tert-butoxide-cubane-tetramer-from-xtal-1991-3D-balls.png Ball-and-stick model of the cubane tetramer that potassium tert-butoxide tBuOK adopts in the solid state in solution and even in the gas phase While a single formula unit of tBuOK has the chemical formula C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>9</sub>KO the tetramer has the formula C<sub>16</sub>H<sub>36</sub>K<sub>4</sub>O<sub>4</sub> Colour code 393939 Carbon C grey-black FFFFFF Hydrogen H white F00000 Oxygen O red 8F41D3 Potassium K purple Structure determined by X-ray crystallography and reported in http //dx doi org/10 1016/S0277-5387 00 80154-0 Polyhedron 1991 10 337 “345 SOGKOO The tert-butyl groups are disordered but only one of the two conformations per group is displayed for simplicity and clarity Model manipulated in http //www crystalmaker com/ CrystalMaker 8 7 Image generated in http //accelrys com/products/discovery-studio/visualization/discovery-studio-visualizer html Accelrys DS Visualizer Own 2012-12-23 Ben Mills Benjah-bmm27 Images by Ben Mills Potassium tert-butoxide | ||||
