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Title: writing versus drawing structural formulas. (organic chemistry)
Post by: dj.yoon1208 on December 29, 2006, 08:39:24 PM

several questions that I have to do over the summer have different starting questions.

Draw the structural formula of...

and

Write the structural formula of... etc

does writing the structural formula mean that I have to write in condensed structural formula

and drawing means, full structural formula drawing?

these questions may be one of the tricks my Chemistry 2 AP teacher puts us into.

Title: Re: writing versus drawing structural formulas. (organic chemistry)
Post by: Albert on December 30, 2006, 09:22:20 AM

I think so.

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these questions may be one of the tricks my Chemistry 2 AP teacher puts us into.

Yeah, but they have nothing to do with chemistry: it's just semantics.

Title: Re: writing versus drawing structural formulas. (organic chemistry)
Post by: Donaldson Tan on January 01, 2007, 12:13:39 PM

Drawing the structural formula and writing the structural formula refer to the same action.

Title: Re: writing versus drawing structural formulas. (organic chemistry)
Post by: Albert on January 01, 2007, 03:40:00 PM

Quote from: geodome on January 01, 2007, 12:13:39 PM

Drawing the structural formula and writing the structural formula refer to the same action.

Also Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_formula) seems to disagree.

Mind you, is it any important? It looks such a meaningless question to me...  :-\

Title: Re: writing versus drawing structural formulas. (organic chemistry)
Post by: AWK on January 02, 2007, 03:29:02 AM

Writing:
CH3-CH2-CH(CH3)-CH3
Drawing: