How many constitutional isomers of C4H8O are there?

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Truong-Son N.
Dec 18, 2015

Took a while... I found 28 optical isomers, but 19 constitutional isomers (seeing as how each R/S optical isomer, or each cis/trans geometric isomer, have the same connectivity).

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