[dm164]

I would like to know if two adjacent carbons can be bonded to an oxygen in a cyclopropane; creating C3H4O. I am not sure if the distance between the oxygen and carbons are too far to make it possible. Another similar to the same idea is if all 3 carbons bond to a single nitrogen (C3H3N) would that also be possible?

[agrobert]

What research have you done for this topic?  Try naming them.  The geometry of these compounds is acceptable but do expect the compounds to be isolated at STP?

[AWK]

do you mean these compounds? They are known

[macman104]

I would like to know if two adjacent carbons can be bonded to an oxygen in a cyclopropane; creating C3H4O. I am not sure if the distance between the oxygen and carbons are too far to make it possible. Another similar to the same idea is if all 3 carbons bond to a single nitrogen (C3H3N) would that also be possible?

Do you mean, C2H4O?  As in...an epoxide?  I've attached my own revised pdf.  Just in case you had your formula wrong...

Actually, i just thought of this compound for your C3H4O compound, it's attached as well.  it also meets your criteria of being the cyclopropane

EDIT:  Thanks to AWK for the pdf idea.  I hated making drawings in chemdraw and then having to shrink the huge dimension .PNG files it made, this is much easier .

[dm164]

The two drawings macman has provided are correct, but I am not refering to the epoxide in his cyclos.pdf.  I am not sure of how these would be named and I have never heard them to known. I expect that compounds will need pressure and heat in order for their creation, but I do not have any idea of their properties. Well, probably explosive.
I would like to know how stable the bonds would be.

[macman104]

I've reattached them in this post in one pdf for you.  Also with the name of the oxygen containing compound from chemdraw.  However, it hadn't a clue how to name the nitrogen containing compound, nor how to name the nitrogen compound if it were simply 4 carbons.  I would imagine being able to make the oxygen compound as I'm pretty sure the existence of the bicyclo[1.1.0]butane is known, so the oxygen analog I think would be possible.  However, I've not a clue about the nitrogen compound.

[sjb]

If the nitrogen-containing compound had no nitrogen, I think it's tetrahedrane, or tricyclo[1.1.0.0^2,4]butane. So a semisystematic name could be monoazatetrahedrane, or monoazatricyclo[1.1.0.0^2,4]butane ??

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tetrahedrane&oldid=192376659

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