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isopentane
Sign in to saveAlso known as (CH3)2CH-CH2-CH3, iso-C5H12, 1,1,2-trimethylethane, dimethylethylmethane, isoamylhydride, 1,1-dimethylpropane, iso-pentane, R-601a
Isopentane, also called methylbutane or 2-methylbutane, is a branched-chain saturated hydrocarbon (an alkane) with five carbon atoms, with formula or .
Chemical data
- Formula
- C5H12
- Molecular weight
- 72.15 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2-methylbutane
- SMILES
- CCC(C)C
- InChIKey
- QWTDNUCVQCZILF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.6
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Isopentane, also called methylbutane or 2-methylbutane, is a branched-chain saturated hydrocarbon (an alkane) with five carbon atoms, with formula or .
Isopentane is a volatile and flammable liquid. It is one of three structural isomers with the molecular formula C5H12, the others being pentane (n-pentane) and neopentane (2,2-dimethylpropane).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “isopentane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.