[Shadow]

What is the iupac name of the attached compound?
Can it be synthesized with all that steric hindrance?

[discodermolide]

Find the longest carbon chain.
It probably can be made, it's a question of experimentation.

[zsinger]

A big heptane!  Very substituted…..would run into many problems, as you said, bc of sterics.
      -Zack

[Enthalpy]

Much more cluttered hydrocarbons are synthesized, check the online Pdf:
Consequences of strain for the structure of aliphatic molecules
by Christoph Rüchardt and Hans-Dieter Backhaus
they synthesized through usual means like Wurz or by dimerization of azoalkanes or through hydrogen abstraction...

[adonwen]

Wouldn't it be 2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6-octamethyl-4-(1,1,2,2-tetramethylpropyl)heptane?

[discodermolide]

How about 2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6-octamethyl-4-(2,3,3-trimethylbutan-2-yl)heptane?.

[Alpha Carbon]

2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6-octamethyl-4-(1,1,2,2-tetramethylpropyl)heptane is the correct name

[discodermolide]

2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6-octamethyl-4-(1,1,2,2-tetramethylpropyl)heptane is the correct name

And you know this, how?

[curiouscat]

My robot slave says  2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6-octamethyl-4-(2,3,3-trimethylbutan-2-yl)heptane

[discodermolide]

You must have the same robot as me 

[curiouscat]

Trying to trick my slave now....



Dang. It's too smart for me. No matter how I write SMILES robot gives same canonical name.