Asked by Sarah
why would 4-methyl-2-pentanone have a lower boiling point that 2-hexanone if they are isomers and their molecular weights are the same?
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Answered by
DrBob222
Branching generally lowers the boiling point. You can read about it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkane
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