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Give reason for the following: The boiling points of alkanes decreases with branching. |
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Answer» With branching the shape of the molecule tends to approach that of a sphere . As a result, the surface area of the branched isomers decreases, so the vander waals forces of attraction between their molecule decreases, so the boiling point decreases. |
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