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Heptadecane is an organic compound, an alkane hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C17H36. The name may refer to any of 24894 theoretically possible structural isomers, or to a mixture thereof.

Chemical data

Formula
C17H36
Molecular weight
240.5 g/mol
IUPAC name
heptadecane
SMILES
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
InChIKey
NDJKXXJCMXVBJW-UHFFFAOYSA-N
XLogP
8.8
Polar surface area
0 Ų
H-bond donors
0
H-bond acceptors
0
Formal charge
0

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Heptadecane is an organic compound, an alkane hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C17H36. The name may refer to any of 24894 theoretically possible structural isomers, or to a mixture thereof.

The unbranched isomer is normal or '''n-heptadecane, CH3(CH2)15CH3. In the IUPAC nomenclature, the name of this compound is simply heptadecane', since the other isomers are viewed and named as alkyl-substituted versions of smaller alkanes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heptadecane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.