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Much like climbing Mt. Everest because its there,  some hypothetical molecules are just too tantalizing for chemists to resist attempting a synthesis. Thus in 1964, Edgar Heilbronner  speculated on whether a conjugated annulene ring might be twistable into a  Möbius strip. It was essentially a fun thing to try to do, rather than the effort being based on some anticipated  (and useful) property it might have.