Question

C5H11Cl
How many possible isomers exist for this compund.

I got five but the answer is 8.

Is there any formula for calculating the number of isomers?
formula is as follows
2 raised to the power (n-2).In this case
n=5 i e no of C atoms therefore answer is 8

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