A000599 Number of secondary alcohols (alkanols or alkyl alcohols C_n H_{2n+1} OH) with n carbon atoms.

0, 0, 1, 1, 3, 6, 15, 33, 82, 194, 482, 1188, 2988, 7528, 19181, 49060, 126369, 326863, 849650, 2216862, 5806256, 15256265, 40210657, 106273050, 281593237, 747890675, 1990689459, 5309397294, 14187485959, 37977600390, 101827024251

Offset: 1

Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

• nonn
• easy

References

• J. L. Faulon, D. Visco and D. Roe, Enumerating Molecules, In: Reviews in Computational Chemistry Vol. 21, Ed. K. Lipkowitz, Wiley-VCH, 2005.
• Handbook of Combinatorics, North-Holland '95, p. 1963.
• D. Perry, The number of structural isomers ..., J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 54 (1932), 2918-2920.
• N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
• N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Links

• H. R. Henze, C. M. Blair, The number of structurally isomeric alcohols of the methanol series, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 53 (8) (1931), 3042-3046.
• H. R. Henze, C. M. Blair, The number of structurally isomeric alcohols of the methanol series, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 53 (8) (1931), 3042-3045. (Annotated scanned copy)
• D. Perry, The number of structural isomers of certain homologs of methane and methanol, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 54 (1932), 2918-2920. [Gives a(60) correctly] (Annotated scanned copy)
• R. C. Read, The Enumeration of Acyclic Chemical Compounds, pp. 25-61 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976. [Annotated scanned copy] See p. 28, 38 (Q(x)).
• N. Trinajstich, Z. Jerievi, J. V. Knop, W. R. Muller and K. Szymanski, Computer Generation of Isomeric Structures, Pure & Appl. Chem., Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 379-390, 1983.

Crossrefs

Cf. A000598, A000600.

Formula

Henze and Blair give a recurrence.; also g.f. A(x) = x*cycle_index(S2, B(x)-1), where B(x) is g.f. for A000598.