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Organic Chemistry: Find the Isomers Challenge

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One of the common problems students have in Organic Chemistry is finding all of the possible isomers for a compound. There are several practise problems that will ask you to find all of these structural isomers.

Note: none of these use stereoisomers (constitutional isomers only) so no E/Z or R/S isomers are needed.
For practice with stereoisomers see this page.

Easy Examples

C2H6O C2H7N C3H7F C3H8O C5H12
C3H6Cl2 C3H6FCl C2H6O2 C3H6FBr C3H5Cl3

Medium Examples

C2H8N2 C3H4Cl4 C4H10O C2H7NO C3H5F2Br
C3H6O C4H6 C5H10 C5H11Cl C4H8Cl2

Hard Examples

C3H8O2 C4H7F C5H12O C3H4F2Br2 C5H13N
C5H8 C6H12 C4H5N C3H5N C2H5NO

Extra Hard Examples

C4H8O C4H9OCl C3H5OCl C4H6Cl2 C4H10O2

Insanely Hard Examples

C4H6ClBr C3H6O2 C4H8O2

Just plain Insane Examples

C4H9NO : > 70 isomers C5H10O : > 90 isomers
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