Timeline for Why do cyclic hydrocarbons have higher boiling points than their acyclic isomers?

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Sep 29, 2015 at 23:21	vote	accept	Ben Norris
Jun 3, 2015 at 22:04	history	edited	Nicolau Saker Neto	CC BY-SA 3.0	Trying to avoid a slight ambiguity
Jun 3, 2015 at 21:38	comment	added	Nicolau Saker Neto		It should be pointed out that the type of molecular volume I mention (macroscopic volume occupied by liquid divided by number of molecules present = effective molecular volume) is not equivalent to the volume most often mentioned in computational chemistry, which is the region enclosed by the van der Waals surface. The only way to obtain the effective molecular volume would be to simulate a large box filled with molecules at a temperature high enough for them to be liquid, and not just by calculating the geometry of a single molecule.
Jun 3, 2015 at 21:23	comment	added	Ben Norris		The relation to density is certainly compelling. I'm wondering if there is any computational data that can be present on the relative surface areas (or perhaps more importantly surface area to volume ratios).
Jun 3, 2015 at 21:20	history	edited	Nicolau Saker Neto	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 17 characters in body
Jun 3, 2015 at 21:12	history	edited	Nicolau Saker Neto	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 607 characters in body
Jun 3, 2015 at 20:59	history	answered	Nicolau Saker Neto	CC BY-SA 3.0