What Is the Smallest Saturated Acyclic Alkane that Cannot Be Made?

K. M. Nalin de Silva, Jonathan M. Goodman. What Is the Smallest Saturated Acyclic Alkane that Cannot Be Made?. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 45(1):81-87, 2005. [doi]

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  title = {What Is the Smallest Saturated Acyclic Alkane that Cannot Be Made?},
  author = {K. M. Nalin de Silva and Jonathan M. Goodman},
  year = {2005},
  doi = {10.1021/ci0497657},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ci0497657},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/SilvaG05-0},
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  journal = {Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences},
  volume = {45},
  number = {1},
  pages = {81-87},
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