Is their is any formula for finding the isomers for an organic compound ?

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Is their is any formula for finding the isomers for an organic compound ?

2007-05-12 13:09:27 · 2 answers · asked by what ever ? 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry

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If you want the number of isomers of alkanes, CnH2n+2, there are articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 53, page 3077 (1931) and Volume 54, pages 1538 and 2918 (1932). The formulas there give 366,319 for C20H42 and more than 4 billion for C30H62.

2007-05-12 13:32:05 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Alkane isomers (but not optical isomers) come out of graph theory,

Journal of Chemical Education 65(8) 661 (1988)

Specific organic systems have been considered,

http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0366-16442002000200006&lng=pt&nrm=iso
and references therein

2007-05-12 13:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋