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Science 28 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5453, pp. 564 - 565
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5453.564
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News of the Week

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY:
Cubic Compound Makes a Bigger Bang

Robert F. Service

Alfred Nobel would no doubt be intrigued by a feat of organic chemistry reported in this week's international edition of Angewandte Chemie: the synthesis of what may be the most powerful nonnuclear explosives ever made. If they can be produced in bulk, the new compounds would put dynamite--Nobel's patented invention--to shame.

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