Edgar Heilbronner in alter Verbundenheit (H. P.; H.-D. M.) zum 80. Geburtstag Secodecahedradiene 2a, featuring very proximate, perfectly syn-periplanar and significantly pyramidalized CC bonds, was synthesized as testing object for in-plane(s)-homoconjugational electron delocalization, starting from the available pagodane 15b. The response of 2a (and in part its diester 2b) ± in p,p-distance (average 3.08 ), olefinic pyramidalization (average 26.98), and p,p-split (PE, 1.15 eV) intermediate between disecododecahedradiene 1a and 1,16-dodecahedradiene 3a ± to selected 4p-reagents, electrophiles, and radicals was explored experimentally and by calculations. Intriguing multistep reaction sequences attest to the ease of competing stabilization pathways for the 3C/2e in-plane homoconjugated cationic intermediates. PE, CV, and ESR measurements and calculations (DFT) characterize the radical cation generated from 2a as in-plane homoconjugated 4C/3e-species 2a. , persistent in a Freon matrix, but only very shortly existent in solution (CIDNP). Consequently, NMR control of the two-electron oxidation in SbF 5 /SO 2 ClF did not disclose the s-bishomoaromatic dication 4C/2e (see 2a 2 ), but a bis-allylic dication 75 as persistent species. In support of 2a 2 as intermediate, evidence is presented for very limited kinetic protection offered by the secododecahedral framework to through H-cage s-homoconjugated cations.