Tricyclic saturated
hydrocarbons
having two
bridgehead carbon atoms
joined through four bridges, systematically named tricyclo
[
]
alkanes,
have been referred to as
[]paddlanes
(when
, the compounds are
propellanes).
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1355