Chemistry 9701 · AS & A Level · Chemical bonding

Chemical bonding — practice question

The diagrams illustrate two distinct compounds. What is: • the total number of structural isomers, including compound 2, that could be produced by adding a second methyl group to the ring of compound 1, • the number of $\pi$ electrons present in each compound?

  • Anumber of isomers: 3; number of $\pi$ electrons: 2
  • Bnumber of isomers: 3; number of $\pi$ electrons: 4
  • Cnumber of isomers: 5; number of $\pi$ electrons: 2
  • Dnumber of isomers: 5; number of $\pi$ electrons: 4

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