What is the smallest saturated acyclic alkane that cannot be made?

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de Silva, KMN [1 ]
Goodman, JM [1 ]
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[1] Unilever Ctr Mol Sci Informat, Dept Chem, Cambridge CB2 1EW, England
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10.1021/ci0497657
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R914 [药物化学];
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100701 ;
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Saturated acyclic alkanes may show a high degree of strain if they have many branches close to each other. We report calculations which indicate how strained a molecule may become before it falls apart rapidly at room temperature and so allow us to identify the simplest alkane which cannot be made.
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