thumb|the chemical structure shows it is a branched-chain alkane with the molecular formula C10H22. Its consists of a nine-carbon straight chain (nonane) with a [[methyl group (-CH3) attached to the second carbon atom.]]
thumb|the chemical structure shows it is a branched-chain alkane with the molecular formula C10H22. Its consists of a nine-carbon straight chain (nonane) with a [[methyl group (-CH3) attached to the second carbon atom.]]
2-Methylnonane (or isodecane) makes a significant portion of fuels like petrol as a fuel additive, making it essential for energy production. It is useful for various applications in organic chemistry as it easily dissolves in non-polar solvents such as hexane and benzene.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).