What is the smallest saturated acyclic alkane that cannot be made?

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-87

  Nalin De Silva, K M ^a,b   Goodman, Jonathan M ^a  

^a Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL BONDS; CONFORMATIONS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRAIN;

ACYLIC ALKANES; CARBON FRAMEWORK; QUATERNARY CARBON; TERTIARY BUTYL GROUPS;

PARAFFINS;

EID: 19644395099     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci0497657     Document Type: Article

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