Timeline for Largest alkane having a given alkane as its base name
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 21:44 | comment | added | Karl | @ComFreek Careful, other people have tried to find such connections, and it didn't exactly prove fruitful ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_C._A._Boeyens is a hilarious example. ;-) | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 22:54 | comment | added | John Gowers | @ComFreek I think this is not so much a deep connection between algebra and chemistry as between algebra and graph theory. And then there is a (shallow) connection between chemistry and graph theory via diagrams for covalently-bonded molecules. | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 8:33 | comment | added | ComFreek | @NicolauSakerNeto I also found big resemblance in the Cayley graph of the free group with 2 generators. As a non-chemist, but someone with interest in maths, I wonder whether there is any deeper connection between algebra and chemistry. If someone has any pointers for me, I am happy to take them. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 23:54 | comment | added | Nicolau Saker Neto | It would seem I have found the structure for the maximal pentadecane in a completely different setting. I wonder if there's anything interesting that pops up from that unusual connection... Actually, it seems that if you take the infinite fractal and assign a single carbon atom to be a particular region size, then circle all regions of that size, you can recover the whole infinite family of maximal alkanes! | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 17:56 | comment | added | mykhal | Preferred IUPAC names is a good concept, but “tetrakis(tri-tert-butylmethyl)methane” is somewhat shorter and clearer ;) | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 16:25 | comment | added | Nandakumar U K | Yes, i got it as C53H108!!! | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 15:27 | history | edited | user7951 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2019 at 15:24 | comment | added | Karl | @matt_black It replaces any of the 12 Me groups of tetra-tBu-methane by tBu, so it's $\ce{C5 + 12 * C4H9 = C53H108}$. Too many isomers to even think about. ;-) | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 15:12 | comment | added | matt_black | My head hurts trying to parse that name. Could you draw it and give its simple overall formula? Then I can look it up on the list given in answers to chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/16135/81 | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 14:24 | vote | accept | Nandakumar U K | ||
| Jan 19, 2019 at 14:12 | comment | added | Karl | @Loong make that definitely. ;-) | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 14:08 | comment | added | user7951 | @IvanNeretin Agreed, the inner C–C bonds would probably be stretched to more than 2 Å. That’s why I wrote “largest theoretical structure”. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 13:33 | comment | added | Ivan Neretin | I believe this thing is much too crowded to survive, but then again, that's not what the question was about. Other than that, you are right. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 13:25 | history | answered | user7951 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
