binane noun1 •Any organic compound having an extended molecular structure of fused norbornanes and cyclobutanes; many of them are molracsAldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich Indeed, diene 4 was the starting point in our original report on the synthesis of binanes as typified by the production of 6σ-binane from the reaction of quadricyclane 2 with diene 4. formsbinanes