Tuesday, February 20, 2018

organic chemistry - Hydrocarbons with only 4 carbon atoms


How many different organic structures (from the pure theoretical viewpoint) can be drawed with only 4 (exact) carbon atoms and with/without hydrogen? Polycyclic compounds and bridged compounds are also allowed. Please, name them all as well! :)


Remark: I have drawed the chemical graphs in a piece of paper (the skeletons) and I get 37 graphs (including linear with simple, double and triple bonds, and planar and nonplanar compounds), without geometric isomerism (cis/trans). Is that OK?



Answer



Final update, all earlier edits incorporated.


Groundrules: Considering compounds with:




  • only carbon and hydrogen

  • only 4 bonds to carbon


There are 37 isomers without considering trans isomers; 49 when trans isomers are included. Also, many of these compounds seem extremely unstable and therefore unlikely to exist.


Note to self: check back in 20 years and see how many of the unlikely ones have been detected.


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Names by row:



  • butane, isobutane

  • but-1-ene, but-2-ene, 2-methylpropene


  • buta-1,3-diene, buta-1,2-diene, buta-1,2,3-triene

  • but-1-yne, but-2-yne, but-1-ene-3-yne, buta-1,3-diyne

  • methylcyclopropane, 2-methylcyclopropene, 1-methylcyclopropene, methylenecyclopropane, methylenecyclopropene, methlycyclopropadiene

  • methylcyclopropyne, methlenecyclopropyne

  • cyclobutane, cyclobutene, cyclobuta-1,2-diene, cyclobuta-1,3-diene, cyclobutatriene, cyclobutatetraene, cyclobutyne, cyclobutenyne, cyclobutadiyne

  • bicyclobutane, bicyclobut-1(3)-ene, bicyclobut-1(2)-ene, bicyclobuta-1,3-diene, bicyclobuta-1,2-diene

  • tetrahedrane, tetrahedrene, tetrahedradiene


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