Philip Eaton
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Philip E. Eaton (b. 1936) is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He and his fellow researchers were the first to synthesize the "impossible" cubane molecule in 1964.
Working with Mao-Xi Zhang he is reported as having been the first to make Octanitrocubane in 2000 or earlier. Because of its high density and highly strained C-C bonds it was expected to be the most powerful explosive discovered, but apparently has not lived up to expectations.
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