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Problem number 15 from the smith organic chemistry textbook.
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And in this problem, we're given four molecules, and we're asked to arrange them in order of increasing boiling point.
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And so in order to do that, we need to remember what governs a boiling point.
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And so we need to look at these four molecules and determine how many carbs.
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They each have and how branched they each are.
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So more carbons are going to correlate with a higher boiling point, and the more linear a molecule is the higher its boiling point is going to be.
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So the first molecule here has eight carbons and is linear.
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The second molecule has seven carbons and is linear.
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The third molecule has seven carbons and one branch, and the fourth molecule has seven carbons and three branches.
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And so we just need to apply those rules that i just talked about...