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)[reply]

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

Wuppertal, Germany

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

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).[reply]

Thanks for the note, I have updated the image.

Cheers

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]