When drawing the structural formula can it be drawn in a straight chain like this?
H - C - C - C - C - C - H
With the other hydrogens bonding to the carbons (5 hydrogens above -1 hydrogen to each carbon, 5 hydrogens below- 1 hydrogen to each carbon)
In all other pictures I have seen it not drawn out in a straight chain but is it still correct?
Thanks
H - C - C - C - C - C - H
With the other hydrogens bonding to the carbons (5 hydrogens above -1 hydrogen to each carbon, 5 hydrogens below- 1 hydrogen to each carbon)
In all other pictures I have seen it not drawn out in a straight chain but is it still correct?
Thanks
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No, if you had a 5 Carbon Chain with 3 hydrogens on each end Carbon and then 2 hydrogens on the 3 carbons inbetween, you'd have pentane. Molecular Formula for pentane is C5H12. now for 2,2-dimethylpropane, you have a 3 carbon chain and then 2 methyl groups from the second carbon. the molecular formula for this is also C5H12.
Same Molecural Formula, different structural formula = Structural Isomerism (:
Same Molecural Formula, different structural formula = Structural Isomerism (: