Correlation Effects on the Relative Stabilities of Alkanes

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 135; no. 35; pp. 13008 - 13014
• Main Authors: McKee, William C, Schleyer, Paul von Ragué
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 04.09.2013

The “alkane branching effect” denotes the fact that simple alkanes with more highly branched carbon skeletons, for example, isobutane and neopentane, are more stable than their normal isomers, for example, n-butane and n-pentane. Although n-alkanes have no branches, the “kinks” (or “protobranches”)...