Chemistry 12th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0078021510
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-151-0

Chapter 1 - Intermolecular Forces and Liquids and Solids - Questions & Problems - Page 510: 11.19

Answer

The longer version with an extended carbon chain will have a higher boiling point.

Work Step by Step

The carbon-chain version has a larger electron cloud that is more spread out, increasing the molecule's polarizability, and thus increasing the strength of the dispersion intermolecular forces, inreasing the amount of energy required to break these intermolecular forces apart.
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