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What is the bond line notation for pentane?

Answer 1

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Bond line drawings are a simple way of drawing/writing the organic molecular structure.

Here is Pentane:

At the end of each line is a carbon. And each carbon has 2-3 bonds with hydrogens depending on where each carbon is.
The two carbons at the two ends of the structure are bonded to 3 hydrogens each, whereas the middle three carbons are bonded to 2 carbons each.

Hopefully you can see the pattern.

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Answer 2

Delilah Anderson

The bond line notation for pentane is:

CH3-CH2-CH2-CH2-CH3

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