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3-methylhexane
Sign in to save3-Methylhexane is a branched hydrocarbon with two enantiomers. It is one of the isomers of heptane.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C7H16
- Molecular weight
- 100.2 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 3-methylhexane
- SMILES
- CCCC(C)CC
- InChIKey
- VLJXXKKOSFGPHI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 3.7
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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3-Methylhexane is a branched hydrocarbon with two enantiomers. It is one of the isomers of heptane.
The molecule is chiral, and is one of the two isomers of heptane to have this property, the other being its structural isomer 2,3-dimethylpentane. The enantiomers are (R)-3-methylhexane and (S)-3-methylhexane.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “3-methylhexane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.