Talk:Dicyclopentadiene

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I am pretty sure that this compound is used as such as a monomer (cross linker?) in some polymerisation reactions, but I do not know the specifics .. can someone add that??

Just to add, density of dicyclopentadiene is 0.98 g cm-1 (source: http://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0873.htm) ... Also interesting is that this page is no where near as detailed as other page related to chemicals on wiki. - xg

That's weird, the link you just provided states that this should be a solid at room temperature 83.116.34.233 13:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Now corrected in the article. --Ed (Edgar181) 14:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Wuppertal, Germany

300 liter escaped in Wuppertal, Germany and 53 people were injured. [1]. --Stone (talk) 16:34, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Liquid or a solid? and incorrect model

I have the compound on my bench and it's a liquid. Another thing is that the model shown gives trans fusion of rings which doesn't make sense if dimer is derived from Diels-Alder reaction of two cyclopentadienes. Hope someone can fix this. Djavko (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC).

Thanks for the note, I have updated the image.

Cheers

Ben (talk) 01:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

TH-dimer

Smokefoot, I don't think it's true that "Hydrogenation of dicyclopentadiene gives TH-dimer" (as you wrote here). Eric Kvaalen (talk) 18:02, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

I dont remember, but obviously I did. Looks completely incorrect because where would the Me groups come from. Checking my usual reference, Ullmann Encyclopedia states the following: "Hydrogenation of dicyclopentadiene and subsequent acid-catalyzed isomerization of the ensuing saturated product 24 has opened a facile synthetic route to adamantane 25." 24 is tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene, the expected product. Thanks for correcting that dumb mistake.--Smokefoot (talk) 20:04, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

the most recent edit comes from this source

Hello there, In the most recent edit of the article, this source seems to indicate that tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene is the jet fuel JP-10. -- Ktsquare (talk) 23:36, 12 January 2022 (UTC)