What is difference butane and isobutane?

Answer 1

Butane is a straight 4-carbon chain. Isobutane has the same composition, but there is a branch in the chain.

Butane: C-C-C-C

Isobutane: C-C-C
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Don't forget to fill in hydrogens so that every carbon atom has four bonds attached to it.

Answer 2

Isobutane, also known as methylpropane or 2-methylpropane, is an alkane, isomeric with butane. Recent concerns with depletion of the ozone layer by freon gases have led to increased use of isobutane as a gas for refrigeration systems, especially in domestic refrigerators and freezers, and as a propellant in aerosol sprays. When used as a refrigerant or a propellant, isobutane is also known as R-600a. It is used as a feedstock in the petrochemical industry, for example in the synthesis of isooctane.
Isobutane is the trivial name retained by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in its 1993 Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry.

Methylpropane is the systematic name. The substituent number (2-) is unnecessary because there is no isomer of this molecule with methylpropane as part of its name.

Butane, also called n-butane, is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3CH2CH2CH3. Butane is also used as a collective term for n-butane together with its only other isomer, isobutane (also called methylpropane), CH(CH3)3.

Butanes are highly flammable, colorless, easily liquefied gases. The name butane was derived by back-formation from the name of butyric acid.

Answer 3

Butane is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3CH2CH2CH3. Butane is also used as a collective term for n-butane together with its only other isomer, isobutane (also called methylpropane), CH(CH3)3.

Isobutane, also known as methylpropane or 2-methylpropane, is an alkane, isomeric with butane.

Answer 4

They are structural isomers that is compounds with same molecular formula but with different structural arrangements. To be more specific they are chain isomers that is they differ in their chain length . For butane it is 4 and for isobutane it is 3

Answer 5

Butane is either of two isomers of a gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, produced synthetically from petroleum and used as a household fuel, refrigerant, and aerosol propellant and in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.

Isobutane is a normally gaseous branch-chain hydrocarbon. It is a colorless paraffinic gas that boils at a temperature of 10.9 degrees Fahrenheit. It is extracted from natural gas or refinery gas streams

Answer 6

butan has some isomeres ,numenclature of these isomeres has 2 ways first IUPAC ,2nd old name(common name)isobutan is one of the old name of a isomeres of butan!its IUPAC name is 2-methylpropan

Answer 7

butane ch3ch2ch2ch3
isobutane ch(ch2)3

Answer 8

The difference is about the arrangement of molecules i.e they are structural isomers.

Answer 9

The spelling.