What is the difference between branched and unbranched alkanes?
1 Answer
Jan 18, 2016
Any alkane that has a carbon atom adjacent to 3 or 4 other carbon atoms, is considered a branched alkane.
Any alkane that has all the carbon atoms adjacent only to 1 or 2 carbon atoms is an unbranched alkane.
Explanation:
Example of
branched butane:
unbranched butane:
Due to the difference in chemical structure, you would expect some chemical properties, such as boiling point, of branched and unbranched alkanes to differ.
