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of a gaseous hydrocarbon is exploded with of (excess) and the mixture is restored to the initial temperature and pressure, at which water is liquid and its volume is negligible. The total volume decreases by . Passing the residual gas through aqueous decreases the volume by a further . The number of open-chain (acyclic) isomers of this hydrocarbon, counting geometrical isomers separately, is _____.
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Answer: 4
For , the gas volume change per mole of hydrocarbon is a contraction of (liquid water occupies no volume, and excess cancels out). The absorbs only : , so . The first contraction gives , so . The hydrocarbon is (check: needs , so is indeed in excess). Open-chain isomers of (one C=C): but-1-ene, -but-2-ene, -but-2-ene and 2-methylpropene. The cyclic isomers (cyclobutane, methylcyclopropane) are excluded.
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