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Has anyone sysnthesized perfluorocubane (AKA octafluorocubane)?

Up until now, there have been attempts at synthesizing octafluorocubane, shown below, but success has been elusive.

C8F8 from https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/a9b6212c-ea5f-46c5-af6f-ef3d2d1893f0/full/octafluorocubane.png

Has there been any success, and how might the symmetry and fluorine's electron affinity affect its properties?