Soil sorption is proportional to carbon chain length, with a length of 14 and more having the highest sorption rate.
The molecule increasingly becomes overall more nonpolar and therefore less soluble in the polar water as the carbon chain becomes longer.
An infinite number of substituents can be obtained simply by increasing carbon chain length.
Their technology allows the selection of carbon chain length, branching, saturation, and chemical functionality of each product.
The carbon chain-oxygen-carbon chain functionality is called an ether.
However, these descriptors describe relative stereochemistry only based on group bulkiness or principal carbon chain, so can be ambiguous.
For example, alanine with a three carbon chain is converted to acetate with two carbons.
Long carbon chain molecules in circumstellar shells.
