BIOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HYDROCARBONS : I. CHAIN STRUCTURE
1. The biologic experiments with the links of the methane series—n-pentane, n-hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, i-octane, and pentene—gave these qualitative results: (a) The higher the number of CH2 groups, the longer the chain, the longer the average lifetime of the animal. (b) The ramified chain does...
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The Rockefeller University Press
1950
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2147241/ |