| Section2 = }} Cubane (C8H8)'s a synthetic hydrocarbon molecule that consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substance, cubane's one of the Platonic hydrocarbons. It was first synthesized in 1964 by Philip Eaton, a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. Before Eaton's work, researchers believed that cubic carbon-based molecules couldn't actually exist, because the unusually sharp 90… (More on Cubane)