Open AccessWhat Is the Smallest Saturated Acyclic Alkane that Cannot Be Made?
Author(s) -
K. M. Nalin de Silva,
Jonathan M. Goodman
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of chemical information and modeling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.24
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1549-960X
pISSN - 1549-9596
DOI - 10.1021/ci0497657
Subject(s) - alkane , strain (injury) , chemistry , hydrocarbon , organic chemistry , biology , anatomy
Saturated acyclic alkanes may show a high degree of strain if they have many branches close to each other. We report calculations which indicate how strained a molecule may become before it falls apart rapidly at room temperature and so allow us to identify the simplest alkane which cannot be made.
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