The purpose of CH1O2 is to: a. keep students busy when they could be napping.
b. follow the content of the lecture course on a day-to-day basis.
c. explore some basic chemical concepts.
d. provide a lab grade for inclusion in the CH101 lecture course.
e. reinforce the content of CH101 with hands-on experience.

because natural gas is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, distributors add mercaptan (a chemical that smells like sulfur) to give natural gas a distinct unpleasant odor (it smells like rotten eggs). they locate the types of rock that are likely to contain natural gas deposits.

5 structural isomers

the isomers are:

n-exane :   ch3ch2ch2ch2ch2ch3

2-methylpentane :   ch3ch(ch3)ch2ch2ch3

3-methylpentane :   ch3ch2ch(ch3)ch2ch3

2,3-dimethylbutane :   (ch3)2chch(ch3)2

2,2-dimethylbutane :   (ch3)3cch2ch3