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Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Sciences => Topic started by: sweetie on February 22, 2010, 05:16:35 pm

Title: skeletal formula
Post by: sweetie on February 22, 2010, 05:16:35 pm

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,
I have enormous problems with drawing skeletal formula, can any1 help

sorry 4 being a great bother,  ???
and plz draw da skeletal formula of 2-bromo 2-methylpropane

Thank You 4 any help

Title: Re: skeletal formula
Post by: nid404 on February 22, 2010, 06:07:27 pm

Easy stuff
remember there's alternating high and low peaks to signify a carbon atom
check the attachment

Title: Re: skeletal formula
Post by: sweetie on February 22, 2010, 06:15:26 pm

this really helped :o
thanx alot :D

Title: Re: skeletal formula
Post by: nid404 on February 22, 2010, 06:16:42 pm

Quote from: notty_me on February 22, 2010, 06:15:26 pm

this really helped :o
thanx alot :D

welcome :)

Title: Re: skeletal formula
Post by: ig student on February 22, 2010, 06:19:27 pm

in skeletal formulas each end of a line represents a carbon atom.
1- as we are drawing "prop"anol then we have to draw 2 lines, each end representing a carbon.
2- as we are drawing 2-bromo we have to draw a vertical line with Br at its end at the 2nd carbon.
3- as we are drawing 2-methyl we have to draw another vertical line at the 2nd carbon with CH3 at its end .

see the attachment.

Title: Re: skeletal formula
Post by: nid404 on February 22, 2010, 06:22:05 pm

U don't have to show the methyl group igstudent

Title: Re: skeletal formula
Post by: sweetie on February 22, 2010, 07:06:48 pm

thanx 4 da help ig student 8)