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A000622
Number of monosubstituted alkanes C(n)H(2n+1)-X of the form shown in the Comments lines that are stereoisomers.
(Formerly M1272 N0490)
8
0, 0, 0, 2, 4, 14, 34, 98, 270, 768, 2192, 6360, 18576, 54780, 162658, 486154, 1461174, 4413988, 13393816, 40807290, 124783604, 382842018, 1178140170, 3635626680, 11247841040, 34880346840, 108402132234, 337576497920, 1053229357732, 3291813720292, 10305275270364
OFFSET
1,4
COMMENTS
R-CH-X (secondary)
.....|
.....R'
Let the entries in the nine columns of Blair and Henze's Table I (JACS 54 (1932), p. 1098) be denoted by Ps(n), Pn(n), Ss(n), Sn(n), Ts(n), Tn(n), As(n), An(n), T(n) respectively (here P = Primary, S = Secondary, T = Tertiary, s = stereoisomers, n = non-stereoisomers and the last column T(n) gives total).
Then Ps (and As) = A000620, Pn (and An, Sn) = A000621, Ss = this sequence, Ts = A000623, Tn = A000624, T = A000625. Recurrences generating these sequences are given in the Maple program in A000620.
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
C. M. Blair and H. R. Henze, The number of stereoisomeric and non-stereoisomeric mono-substitution products of the paraffins, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 54 (3) (1932), 1098-1106.
C. M. Blair and H. R. Henze, The number of stereoisomeric and non-stereoisomeric mono-substitution products of the paraffins, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 54 (3) (1932), 1098-1105. (Annotated scanned copy)
FORMULA
a(n) ~ c * b^n / n^(3/2), where b = 3.287112055584474991259... (see A239803), c = 0.171310881484463744523... (see A239807). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 27 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
EXTENSIONS
Additional comments from Bruce Corrigan, Nov 04 2002
STATUS
approved